--- title: A budgie that sits fluffed up and still for a long time may be ill a… — Budgies and canaries · tree and pragmatics description: A budgie that sits fluffed up and still for a long time may be ill and needs a vet quickly, because small birds hide illness until they are very sick. Who acts: budgie, small birds, Budgies. A sentence of the lesson «Budgies and canaries» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Budgies and canaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/) / 14 # Budgies and canaries, sentence 14 A budgie that sits fluffed up and still for a long time may be ill and needs a vet quickly, because small birds hide illness until they are very sick. **Who acts:** budgie, small birds, Budgies · **What happens:** sit, fluff up, be, need, hide · **To what, where:** vet, illness This is a sentence of the lesson «Budgies and canaries» of the biology 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 (budgie, small birds, Budgies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries.lesson:14 # text = A budgie that sits fluffed up and still for a long time may be ill and needs a vet quickly, because small birds hide illness until they are very sick. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 205-budgies-and-canaries.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 budgie budgie NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 fluffed fluff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 xcomp _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 still still ADV RB _ 5 conj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 26 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 until until SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 advcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | a budgie | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fluff up** | participle | a budgie *not said here* | | | | time | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | may | a budgie | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **need** | present | a budgie *not said here* | a vet | | | | quickly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme | | 5 | **hide** | present | small birds | illness | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | Budgies *= budgie* | | | | | sick *property* | tree rules | 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:205-budgies-and-canaries.lesson:14`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Budgies and canaries, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/12/) - next →: [Budgies and canaries, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/)