--- title: Start digging in a garden and a robin will often hop down beside you… — Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders · tree and pragmatics description: Start digging in a garden and a robin will often hop down beside your spade within minutes, because every turn of the soil brings up worms and grubs for it. Who acts: you, robin, turn. 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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 (you, robin, turn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders.lesson:0 # text = Start digging in a garden and a robin will often hop down beside your spade within minutes, because every turn of the soil brings up worms and grubs for it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Start start VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 digging dig VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 robin robin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 hop hop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 12 down down ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 13 beside beside ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 spade spade NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 within within ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 grubs grub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **dig** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | a garden | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location | | 3 | **hop down** | future | a robin | | | your spade | minute | down, often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside spade=Trajectory | | 4 | **bring up** | present | every turn of the soil | worms and grubs | | | | for robin | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent worm=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](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:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Foxes and squirrels, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/15/) - next →: [Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/)