Birds and baby animals, sentence 6

Most birds have a poor sense of smell and won't abandon a chick because a person touched it; still, fledglings on the ground are usually fine and their parents nearby, so it's best to leave them.

Who acts: Most birds, person, fledglings · What happens: have, not abandon, touch, be, leave, sense · To what, where: poor sense, chick, birds, 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, person, fledglings), 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	38 best	parataxis
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	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 abandon	cc
10	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 abandon	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 abandon	advmod
12	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chick	det
14	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 abandon	obj
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 touched	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 person	det
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 touched	nsubj
18	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 abandon	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 touched	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 fledglings	punct
21	still	still	ADV	_	23 fledglings	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 still	punct
23	fledglings	fledgling	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fine	nsubj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fledglings	nmod
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 fine	cop
28	usually	usually	ADV	_	29 fine	advmod
29	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 best	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 parents	cc
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 parents	nmod:poss
32	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fine	conj
33	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	29 fine	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 best	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	38 best	advmod
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 best	expl
37	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 best	cop
38	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
39	to	to	PART	_	40 leave	mark
40	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 best	csubj
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 leave	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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 abandon	future	Most birds not said here	a chick		vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme chick=Source
3	touch	past	a person	chick		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
4	is	present	fledglings on the ground		fine, usually property	tree rules
5	is	present			good property	tree rules
6	leave	to-infinitive		birds = bird		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	sense			smell		nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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:6.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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