Birds: feathers, nests and flight, sentence 10
A bird's strong flight muscles are fixed to a keel on its breastbone.
What happens: fix · To what, where: strong flight muscles
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds: feathers, nests and flight» of the world 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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 muscles | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 bird | case |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 muscles | amod |
| 5 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 muscles | compound |
| 6 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fixed | aux:pass |
| 8 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 keel | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 keel | det |
| 11 | keel | keel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fixed | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 breastbone | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 breastbone | nmod:poss |
| 14 | breastbone | breastbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keel | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | present · passive | a bird's strong flight muscles | to a keel on bird's breastbone | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to keel=Co-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:world:073-birds-feathers-nests-flight.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): 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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