Birds and baby animals, sentence 8

Mother birds don't push chicks out to teach flying; fledglings leave when ready, and flying comes from instinct and practice, with parents encouraging.

Who acts: Mother birds, fledglings, flying, parents · What happens: not push out, teach, fly, leave, come, encourage · To what, where: chicks, instinct

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 (Mother birds, fledglings, flying, 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 birds	compound
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 push	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 push	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 push	advmod
5	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 push	obj
7	out	out	ADV	_	5 push	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 teach	mark
9	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 push	advcl
10	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 teach	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 leave	punct
12	fledglings	fledgling	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 leave	nsubj
13	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 push	parataxis
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 ready	advmod
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 leave	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 comes	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 comes	cc
18	flying	flying	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 comes	nsubj
19	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 leave	conj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 instinct	case
21	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 comes	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 practice	cc
23	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 instinct	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 encouraging	punct
25	with	with	SCONJ	_	27 encouraging	mark
26	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 encouraging	nsubj
27	encouraging	encourage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 push	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 push	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not push out	present · do-support	Mother birds	chicks		out property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Theme
2	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	Mother birds not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fly	gerund	Mother birds not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	present	fledglings				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	present	flying		instinct and practice		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from instinct=Initial_Location
6	encourage	gerund	parents				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:8.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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