Birds: feathers, nests and flight, sentence 8
Down feathers trap air and keep a bird warm.
Who acts: Down feathers · What happens: trap, keep · 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 (Down feathers), 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 | Down | down | NOUN | _ | 2 feathers | compound |
| 2 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trap | nsubj |
| 3 | trap | trap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trap | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 keep | cc |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 trap | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obj |
| 9 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 keep | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trap | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trap | present | Down feathers | air | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | Down feathers not said here | a bird | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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:8.
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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