--- title: Blue tits hang upside down to pick insects from the tips of twigs, a… — Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders · tree and pragmatics description: Blue tits hang upside down to pick insects from the tips of twigs, and in Britain last century tits learned to open the tops of milk bottles, a trick that spread from bird to bird. Who acts: Blue tits, century tits, trick. 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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 (Blue tits, century tits, trick), 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:8 # text = Blue tits hang upside down to pick insects from the tips of twigs, and in Britain last century tits learned to open the tops of milk bottles, a trick that spread from bird to bird. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 tits tit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hang hang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 tips tip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 twigs twig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 18 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod 19 century century NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 tits tit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 tops top NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 bottles bottle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 . . 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 | **hang down** | present | Blue tits | upside | | | | down *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Patient | | 2 | **pick** | to-infinitive | Blue tits *not said here* | insects | | the tips of twigs | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent insect=Theme from tip=Source | | 3 | **learn** | past | century tits | | | Britain | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **open** | to-infinitive | century tits *not said here* | the tops of milk bottles | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location top=Theme | | 5 | **spread** | past | a trick | | | | | from bird; to bird | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:8`. **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, R8-pos-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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