Thinking like an animal, sentence 14
A baby bird with no feathers on the ground has fallen out too early; if the nest is in reach, an adult can gently put it back.
Who acts: baby bird, nest, adult · What happens: fall out, be, put back · To what, where: reach, bird
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 (baby bird, nest, adult), 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 | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | compound |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fallen | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 feathers | case |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 feathers | det |
| 6 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bird | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feathers | nmod |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fallen | aux |
| 11 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 fallen | advmod |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 early | advmod |
| 14 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 fallen | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 fallen | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 reach | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 nest | det |
| 18 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reach | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 reach | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 reach | case |
| 21 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 put | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reach | punct |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 adult | det |
| 24 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 put | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 put | aux |
| 26 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 27 put | advmod |
| 27 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fallen | parataxis |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 put | obj |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 put | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall out | present · perfect | a baby bird with no feathers on the ground | early, out property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the nest | reach | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put back | can | a adult | bird | gently property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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: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): 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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