The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 3

Keepers watch closely, because birds hide illness; a bird weighed in a cup on a scale can tell the keeper it is unwell long before it looks ill.

Who acts: Keepers, birds, bird, illness · What happens: watch, hide, weigh, tell, be, look · To what, where: illness, bird, cup, keeper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Keepers, birds, bird, illness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 watch	nsubj
2	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	closely	closely	ADV	_	2 watch	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hide	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 hide	mark
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hide	nsubj
7	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 watch	advcl
8	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 weighed	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	nsubj
12	weighed	weigh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bird	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 cup	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cup	det
15	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 weighed	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 scale	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 scale	det
18	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 weighed	obl
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	aux
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 watch	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 keeper	det
22	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	obj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 unwell	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 unwell	cop
25	unwell	unwell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tell	ccomp
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 looks	advmod
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 looks	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 looks	nsubj
29	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 unwell	advcl
30	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 looks	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 watch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	present	Keepers			closely property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	hide	present	birds	illness			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Patient
3	weigh	participle		a bird not said here	a cup	on a scale	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	can	a bird	the keeper			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent keeper=Recipient
5	is	present	illness			unwell property	tree rules
6	look	present	illness			ill, long property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:3.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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