--- title: A garden is a busy bird town, with blackbirds listening and looking… — Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders · tree and pragmatics description: A garden is a busy bird town, with blackbirds listening and looking for worms, blue tits hanging upside down, tiny wrens shouting their songs and, at dusk, starlings swirling in clouds of thousands. Who acts: garden, blackbirds, blue tits, tiny wrens. 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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 (garden, blackbirds, blue tits, tiny wrens), 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:3 # text = A garden is a busy bird town, with blackbirds listening and looking for worms, blue tits hanging upside down, tiny wrens shouting their songs and, at dusk, starlings swirling in clouds of thousands. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 with with SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 blackbirds blackbird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 tits tit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 19 hanging hang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 down down ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 wrens wren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj 25 shouting shout VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 starlings starling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 34 swirling swirl VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a garden | a busy bird town | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **listen** | gerund | blackbirds | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **look** | gerund | blackbirds *not said here* | | | | | for worms and blue tits | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for worm=Theme | | 4 | **hang** | gerund | blue tits *not said here* | upside | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Patient | | 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | tiny wrens | wrens's songs | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic | | 6 | **swirl** | gerund | starlings *not said here* | | | clouds of thousands | dusk | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Location | | 7 | **sing** | | wrens *= wren* | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **cloud** | | | thousands | | | | | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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:3`. **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 ×2. **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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