Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 4

Wild birds and their nests deserve respect: watch them from a distance, never disturb a nest or take eggs, and in many countries nests of wild birds are protected by law.

Who acts: Wild birds, law · What happens: deserve, watch, not disturb, take, protect · To what, where: respect, bird, nest, eggs, nests, many countries

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: who acts (Wild birds, law), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deserve	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nests	cc
4	their	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nests	nmod:poss
5	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 birds	conj
6	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deserve	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 watch	punct
9	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 deserve	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 watch	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 distance	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 distance	det
13	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watch	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 disturb	punct
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 disturb	advmod
16	disturb	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 watch	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 nest	det
18	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 disturb	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 take	cc
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 disturb	conj
21	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 take	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 protected	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 protected	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 countries	case
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 countries	amod
26	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 protected	obl
27	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 protected	nsubj:pass
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 birds	case
29	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 birds	amod
30	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 nests	nmod
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 protected	aux:pass
32	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 deserve	conj
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 law	case
34	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 protected	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 deserve	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	deserve	present	Wild birds and bird's nests	respect			tree rules
2	watch	infinitive		bird		from a distance	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	not disturb	infinitive		a nest			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nest=Experiencer
4	take	infinitive		eggs			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
5	protect	present · passive	law	nests of wild birds	many countries		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary

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:4.

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 ×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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