Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 14

Birds of prey are trained with food rewards and come back to the glove because it pays; the thick leather glove protects the trainer from the talons.

Who acts: falcon, thick leather glove · What happens: train, come back, pay, protect · To what, where: Birds, glove, trainer

This is a sentence of the lesson «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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 (falcon, thick leather glove), 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	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trained	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 prey	case
3	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Birds	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trained	aux:pass
5	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 rewards	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rewards	compound
8	rewards	reward	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trained	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 come	cc
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trained	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 glove	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 glove	det
14	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 pays	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pays	nsubj
17	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 come	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 protects	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 glove	det
20	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 glove	amod
21	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 glove	compound
22	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 protects	nsubj
23	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trained	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 trainer	det
25	trainer	trainer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 protects	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 talons	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 talons	det
28	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 protects	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trained	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	train	present · passive		Birds of prey		with food rewards	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come back	present			the glove		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to glove=Initial_Location
3	pay	present	falcon				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	protect	present	the thick leather glove	the trainer		from the talons	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent trainer=Beneficiary from talon=Theme

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:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:14.

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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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