The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 9

Many pheasants come from Asia; the males are colourful to impress, while the brown females sit on the nest and need to hide.

Who acts: Many pheasants, males, brown females · What happens: come, be, impress, sit, need, hide · To what, where: Asia, nest

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 (Many pheasants, males, brown females), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pheasants	amod
2	pheasants	pheasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Asia	case
5	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 colourful	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 males	det
8	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 colourful	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 colourful	cop
10	colourful	colourful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 come	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 impress	mark
12	impress	impress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 colourful	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sit	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 sit	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 females	det
16	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 females	amod
17	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sit	nsubj
18	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 colourful	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 nest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 nest	det
21	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sit	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 need	cc
23	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sit	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hide	mark
25	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 need	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Many pheasants	Asia		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from asia=Initial_Location
2	is	present	the males		colourful property	tree rules
3	impress	to-infinitive	the males not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	sit	present	the brown females	the nest		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nest=Location
5	need	present	the brown females not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	the brown females not said here			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:9.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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