--- title: Robins follow gardeners because digging brings worms and insects to… — Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders · tree and pragmatics description: Robins follow gardeners because digging brings worms and insects to the surface, and in the wild they follow wild boar for the same reason. Who acts: Robins, digging, worms. A sentence of the lesson «Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders, sentence 4 Robins follow gardeners because digging brings worms and insects to the surface, and in the wild they follow wild boar for the same reason. **Who acts:** Robins, digging, worms · **What happens:** follow, bring · **To what, where:** gardeners, worms, surface, wild boar, wild 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 (Robins, digging, worms), 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:4 # text = Robins follow gardeners because digging brings worms and insects to the surface, and in the wild they follow wild boar for 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Robins robin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 gardeners gardener NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:mark 5 digging dig NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 7 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 boar boar NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | present | Robins | gardeners | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Theme | | 2 | **bring** | present | digging | worms and insects | | the surface | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent worm=Theme to surface=Destination | | 3 | **follow** | present | worms *= worm* | wild boar | | the wild | | for the same reason | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boar=Theme in wild=Trajectory | 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:4`. **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. **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: [Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/3/) - next →: [Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/)