--- title: Birds may nest in a nest box in spring, and the size of the hole dec… — Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders · tree and pragmatics description: Birds may nest in a nest box in spring, and the size of the hole decides which birds can use it; a small hole keeps out bigger birds that would take the eggs or chicks. Who acts: Birds, size, small hole, bigger birds. 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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 (Birds, size, small hole, bigger birds), 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:9 # text = Birds may nest in a nest box in spring, and the size of the hole decides which birds can use it; a small hole keeps out bigger birds that would take the eggs or chicks. # 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 ×1 1 Birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 nest nest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 19 det _ _ 19 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 29 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 amod _ _ 30 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nest** | may | Birds | | | a nest box | spring | | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **decide** | present | the size of the hole | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **use** | can | which birds | size | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **keep out** | present | a small hole | bigger birds | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | | 5 | **take** | would | bigger birds | the eggs or chicks | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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:9`. **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 ×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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