Birds: feathers, nests and flight, sentence 5

A bird's beak shows what it eats: a hooked beak tears meat, a short thick beak cracks seeds, a long thin beak reaches nectar in flowers and a flat beak sifts food from water.

Who acts: beak, bird, hooked beak, short thick beak, long thin beak, flat beak · What happens: show, eat, tear, crack, reach, sift · To what, where: meat, seeds, nectar, flowers, food · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (beak, bird, hooked beak, short thick beak), 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	4 beak	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bird	case
4	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	nsubj
5	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 eats	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eats	nsubj
8	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shows	ccomp
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 shows	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 beak	det
11	hooked	hook	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beak	amod
12	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tears	nsubj
13	tears	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shows	parataxis
14	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tears	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cracks	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 beak	det
17	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beak	amod
18	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beak	amod
19	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cracks	nsubj
20	cracks	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tears	conj
21	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cracks	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reaches	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 beak	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 beak	amod
25	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 beak	amod
26	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reaches	nsubj
27	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shows	parataxis
28	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reaches	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 flowers	case
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 nectar	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sifts	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 beak	det
33	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 beak	amod
34	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sifts	nsubj
35	sifts	sift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 reaches	conj
36	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sifts	obj
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 water	case
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sifts	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	a bird's beak				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	present	bird				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
3	tear	present	a hooked beak	meat			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location meat=Theme
4	crack	present	a short thick beak	seeds			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme
5	reach	present	a long thin beak	nectar	flowers		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme
6	sift	present	a flat beak	food		from water	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient from water=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:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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