Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 26

Many birds, like magpies, swoop at people near their nest in spring to protect their chicks; it stops when the chicks fly.

Who acts: hedgehog, chicks · What happens: swoop, protect, stop, fly · To what, where: chicks

This is a sentence of the lesson «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» 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 (hedgehog, chicks), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 magpies	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 magpies	case
5	magpies	magpie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 birds	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 swoop	punct
7	swoop	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 birds	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swoop	obl
10	near	near	ADP	_	12 nest	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nest	nmod:poss
12	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 people	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 spring	case
14	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swoop	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 protect	mark
16	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 swoop	advcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 chicks	nmod:poss
18	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 protect	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 stops	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stops	nsubj
21	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 birds	conj
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 fly	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 chicks	det
24	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fly	nsubj
25	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 stops	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 birds	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	swoop	present			spring	at people near people's nest	tree rules
2	protect	to-infinitive		people's chicks			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Beneficiary
3	stop	present	hedgehog				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	fly	present	the chicks				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.lesson:26.

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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