Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 18
It is against the law in many countries to disturb the nests of wild birds or take their eggs.
What happens: be, disturb, take · To what, where: many countries, nests, eggs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday 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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 law | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 law | cop |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 law | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 law | det |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 countries | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 countries | amod |
| 8 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 law | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 disturb | mark |
| 10 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 law | csubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nests | det |
| 12 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 disturb | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 birds | case |
| 14 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 birds | amod |
| 15 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 nests | nmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 take | cc |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 disturb | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 take | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 law | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many countries | against the law | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disturb | to-infinitive | the nests of wild birds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nest=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | bird's eggs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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:everyday:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:18.
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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