--- title: Male satin bowerbirds build a stick bower and decorate it with blue… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics description: Male satin bowerbirds build a stick bower and decorate it with blue things such as flowers, feathers and bottle caps, and some bowerbirds arrange objects to change how big they look from the female's viewpoint. Who acts: Male satin bowerbirds, bowerbirds. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Male satin bowerbirds, bowerbirds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.lesson:8 # text = Male satin bowerbirds build a stick bower and decorate it with blue things such as flowers, feathers and bottle caps, and some bowerbirds arrange objects to change how big they look from the female's viewpoint. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 satin satin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 bowerbirds bowerbird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 bower bower NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 decorate decorate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 16 case _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 caps cap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 bowerbirds bowerbird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 arrange arrange VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 objects object NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 30 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 31 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 female female NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 viewpoint viewpoint NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present | Male satin bowerbirds | a stick bower | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bower=Product | | 2 | **decorate** | present | Male satin bowerbirds *not said here* | bower | | | | with blue things such flowers and feathers and bottle caps | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with thing=Theme | | 3 | **arrange** | present | some bowerbirds | objects | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Product | | 4 | **change** | to-infinitive | some bowerbirds *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **look** | present | bowerbirds *= bowerbird* | | | | | from the female's viewpoint; big *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from viewpoint=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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