Thinking like an animal, sentence 12
A fledgling is a young bird with feathers that has left the nest and hops on the ground while its parents still feed it.
Who acts: fledgling, feathers, parents · What happens: be, leave, hop, feed · To what, where: young bird, nest, ground, fledgling
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» 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 (fledgling, feathers, parents), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fledgling | det |
| 2 | fledgling | fledgling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bird | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bird | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bird | amod |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 feathers | case |
| 8 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bird | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 left | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 feathers | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nest | det |
| 13 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hops | cc |
| 15 | hops | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obl |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 feed | mark |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 parents | nmod:poss |
| 21 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 feed | nsubj |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 feed | advmod |
| 23 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 feed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a fledgling | a young bird | with feathers | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | present · perfect | feathers | the nest | the ground | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nest=Theme on ground=Location | |||
| 3 | hop | present | feathers not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feed | present | fledgling's parents | fledgling | still | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:12.
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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