--- title: A blackbird tilts its head on the lawn while looking, and maybe list… — Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders · tree and pragmatics description: A blackbird tilts its head on the lawn while looking, and maybe listening, for worms; only males are black, while females are brown, which helps them hide on the nest. Who acts: blackbird, males, females, blackbirds. 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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 (blackbird, males, females, blackbirds), 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:7 # text = A blackbird tilts its head on the lawn while looking, and maybe listening, for worms; only males are black, while females are brown, which helps them hide on the nest. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 blackbird blackbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tilts tilt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 lawn lawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 while while SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 listening listen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **tilt** | present | a blackbird | robin's head | | the lawn | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on lawn=Location | | 2 | **look** | gerund | a blackbird *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **listen** | gerund | a blackbird *not said here* | | | | | for worms; maybe *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for worm=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | males | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | females | | | | | brown *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **help** | present | | blackbirds *= blackbird* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 7 | **hide** | infinitive | blackbirds *= blackbird* *not said here* | | | the nest | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nest=Location | 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:7`. **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 ×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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