Birds: feathers, nests and flight, sentence 6

For example, a bird preens every day, combing its feathers with its beak and spreading oil from a gland near its tail, so a duck stays dry even after a dive.

Who acts: bird, duck · What happens: preen, comb, spread, stay · To what, where: feathers, oil, gland

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 (bird, duck), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 example	case
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 preens	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 preens	nsubj
6	preens	preen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 preens	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 combing	punct
10	combing	comb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 preens	advcl
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feathers	nmod:poss
12	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 combing	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 beak	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 beak	nmod:poss
15	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 combing	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 spreading	cc
17	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 combing	conj
18	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spreading	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 gland	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 gland	det
21	gland	gland	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spreading	obl
22	near	near	ADP	_	24 tail	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tail	nmod:poss
24	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gland	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dry	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 stays	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 duck	det
28	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stays	nsubj
29	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 combing	conj
30	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 stays	xcomp
31	even	even	ADV	_	34 dive	advmod
32	after	after	ADP	_	34 dive	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 dive	det
34	dive	dive	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dry	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 preens	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	preen	present	a bird			day	for example	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	comb	gerund	a bird not said here	bird's feathers			with bird's beak	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
3	spread	gerund	a bird not said here	oil	a gland near bird's tail			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oil=Theme
4	stay	present	a duck				dry property	vn exist-47.1 «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:6.

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): 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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