Birds: feathers, nests and flight, sentence 16
Birds keep their eggs warm with their own bodies until the chicks hatch.
Who acts: Birds, chicks · What happens: keep, hatch · To what, where: eggs
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, chicks), 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 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 keep | obj |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 keep | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 bodies | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bodies | amod |
| 9 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 keep | obl |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 hatch | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chicks | det |
| 12 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hatch | nsubj |
| 13 | hatch | hatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 keep | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Birds | wings's eggs | with wings's own bodies; warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | |||
| 2 | hatch | present | the chicks | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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:16.
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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