--- title: Robins are fierce defenders of territory; their red breast warns riv… — Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders · tree and pragmatics description: Robins are fierce defenders of territory; their red breast warns rivals away, and in experiments they attacked even a bunch of red feathers on a stick. Who acts: Robins, red breast, rivals. 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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 (Robins, red breast, rivals), 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:6 # text = Robins are fierce defenders of territory; their red breast warns rivals away, and in experiments they attacked even a bunch of red feathers on a stick. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Robins robin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 defenders defender NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 warns warn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 12 rivals rival NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 experiments experiment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 attacked attack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bunch bunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Robins | fierce defenders | | | | of territory | tree rules | | 2 | **warn away** *speech: warn* | present | defenders's red breast | rivals | | | | away *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rival=Recipient | | 3 | **attack** | past | rivals *= rival* | a bunch of red feathers | | experiments | | on a stick | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunch=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:6`. **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): 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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