--- title: Fledglings often leave the nest before they can fly well and are sti… — Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders · tree and pragmatics description: Fledglings often leave the nest before they can fly well and are still fed by their parents, so a feathered baby bird on the ground is usually best left alone. Who acts: Fledglings, parents. 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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 (Fledglings, parents), 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:13 # text = Fledglings often leave the nest before they can fly well and are still fed by their parents, so a feathered baby bird on the ground is usually best left alone. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fledglings fledgling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 10 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 13 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 feathered feathered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 28 usually usually ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 29 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 30 advmod _ _ 30 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 31 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | present | Fledglings | the nest | | | | often *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme | | 2 | **fly** | can | Fledglings *= fledgling* | | | | | well *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **feed** | present · passive | birds's parents | | | | still | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **leave** | present · passive | | a feathered baby bird on the ground | | | | alone, usually, well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders.lesson:13`. **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. **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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