Birds: feathers, nests and flight, sentence 15
Birds preen to keep their feathers clean, tidy and waterproof.
Who acts: Birds · What happens: preen, keep · To what, where: feathers
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: who acts (Birds), 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 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 preen | nsubj |
| 2 | preen | preen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 keep | mark |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 preen | advcl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tidy | punct |
| 9 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clean | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 waterproof | cc |
| 11 | waterproof | waterproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clean | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 preen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preen | present | Birds | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | Birds not said here | wings's feathers | clean property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme |
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:15.
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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