Birds and baby animals, sentence 3

Most birds have a poor sense of smell, so a touch won't make parents abandon a chick; but Molly's rule is still good, because a fledgling (a young bird that has just left the nest) on the ground usually has its parents close by, watching.

Who acts: Most birds, touch, parents, rule, young bird, fledgling · What happens: have, not make, not abandon, be, leave, watch · To what, where: poor sense, parents, chick, nest, smell

This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds and baby animals» of the myths 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 (Most birds, touch, parents, rule), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sense	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sense	amod
6	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 smell	case
8	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sense	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	15 make	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 touch	det
12	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	nsubj
13	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 make	advmod
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	parataxis
16	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	obj
17	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 make	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 chick	det
19	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 abandon	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 good	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 good	cc
22	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 rule	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Molly	case
24	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 good	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 good	cop
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 good	advmod
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 have	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 has	punct
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	47 has	mark
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fledgling	det
31	fledgling	fledgling	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 has	nsubj
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 bird	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bird	det
34	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bird	amod
35	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fledgling	appos
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 left	nsubj
37	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 left	aux
38	just	just	ADV	_	39 left	advmod
39	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 bird	acl:relcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 nest	det
41	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 left	obj
42	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 bird	punct
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 ground	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ground	det
45	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fledgling	nmod
46	usually	usually	ADV	_	47 has	advmod
47	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 good	advcl
48	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 parents	nmod:poss
49	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 has	obj
50	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 has	advmod
51	by	by	ADP	_	50 close	fixed
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 watching	punct
53	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 has	xcomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Most birds	a poor sense of smell			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
2	not make	future	a touch	parents			tree rules
3	not abandon	infinitive	parents not said here	a chick			vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme chick=Source
4	is	present	Molly's rule		still	good property	tree rules
5	leave	present · perfect	a young bird	the nest			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme
6	have	present	a fledgling on the ground	chick's parents		close, usually property	tree rules
7	watch	gerund	chick's parents not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
8	sense			smell			nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient
9	rule		Molly				nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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:myths:010-birds-and-baby-animals.lesson:3.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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