--- title: Birds crash into windows because they see reflected trees and sky, a… — Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders · tree and pragmatics description: Birds crash into windows because they see reflected trees and sky, and stickers on the glass break up the reflection. Who acts: Birds, stickers. A sentence of the lesson «Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders, sentence 11 Birds crash into windows because they see reflected trees and sky, and stickers on the glass break up the reflection. **Who acts:** Birds, stickers · **What happens:** crash, see, reflect, break up · **To what, where:** windows, reflected trees, reflection 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 (Birds, stickers), 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:11 # text = Birds crash into windows because they see reflected trees and sky, and stickers on the glass break up the reflection. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 crash crash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 reflected reflect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 stickers sticker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 reflection reflection NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crash** | present | Birds | | | | | into windows *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into window=Result | | 2 | **see** | present | birds *= bird* | reflected trees and sky | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | | 3 | **reflect** | participle | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **break up** | present | stickers on the glass | the reflection | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reflection=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:11`. **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, R6-punct-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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