--- title: Long before there were gardeners, robins followed wild boar rooting… — Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders · tree and pragmatics description: Long before there were gardeners, robins followed wild boar rooting through the forest floor for exactly the same reason. Who acts: gardeners, robins, wild boar. A sentence of the lesson «Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/1/) [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/) / [Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/) / 1 # Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders, sentence 1 Long before there were gardeners, robins followed wild boar rooting through the forest floor for exactly the same reason. **Who acts:** gardeners, robins, wild boar · **What happens:** be, follow, root · **To what, where:** wild boar, forest floor This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders» 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 (gardeners, robins, wild boar), 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:1 # text = Long before there were gardeners, robins followed wild boar rooting through the forest floor for exactly the same reason. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 2 before before SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 4 expl _ _ 4 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 gardeners gardener NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 robins robin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 boar boar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 rooting root VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | gardeners | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **follow** | past | robins | wild boar | | | | for the same reason | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent boar=Theme for reason=Attribute | | 3 | **root** | gerund | wild boar *not said here* | | | the forest floor | | | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through floor=Location | 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:1`. **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): 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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