Birds: feathers, nests and flight, sentence 17
Birds build many kinds of nests: cups of twigs, woven baskets, mud nests and holes in trees.
Who acts: Birds · What happens: build, weave · To what, where: many kinds
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 build | nsubj |
| 2 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kinds | amod |
| 4 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 build | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nests | case |
| 6 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kinds | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 cups | punct |
| 8 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kinds | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 twigs | case |
| 10 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cups | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 baskets | punct |
| 12 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 baskets | amod |
| 13 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cups | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nests | punct |
| 15 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nests | compound |
| 16 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cups | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 holes | cc |
| 18 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cups | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 holes | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 build | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | Birds | many kinds of nests | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Product | ||||
| 2 | weave | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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:17.
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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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