Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 10
Baby birds are very hard to keep alive, even for experts; a fledgling on the ground is often still fed by its parents nearby.
Who acts: Baby birds, parents · What happens: be, keep, feed · To what, where: fledgling
This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» of the religion ethics 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 birds, 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 | Baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 birds | compound |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hard | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | xcomp |
| 8 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 experts | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 experts | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 experts | case |
| 12 | experts | expert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 fed | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fledgling | det |
| 15 | fledgling | fledgling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fledgling | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fed | aux:pass |
| 20 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 fed | advmod |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 fed | advmod |
| 22 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hard | parataxis |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 parents | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 parents | nmod:poss |
| 25 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fed | obl |
| 26 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 22 fed | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Baby birds | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | Baby birds not said here | for experts; alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | feed | present · passive | fledgling's parents | a fledgling on the ground | still | nearby, often property | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
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:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:10.
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 ×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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