Birds: feathers, nests and flight, sentence 4
Flapping pushes air down and back, so the bird is pushed up and forward.
Who acts: Flapping · What happens: push, push up · To what, where: air, bird
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 (Flapping), 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 | Flapping | flap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pushes | nsubj |
| 2 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pushes | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 pushes | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 back | cc |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 down | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pushed | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 pushed | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pushed | aux:pass |
| 12 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pushes | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 pushed | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 forward | cc |
| 15 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 12 pushed | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pushes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | present | Flapping | air | down property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | |||
| 2 | push up | present · passive | the bird | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:4.
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): R8-pos-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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