--- title: The tailorbird pokes holes in leaves and pulls plant fibres or spide… — Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds an… · tree and pragmatics description: The tailorbird pokes holes in leaves and pulls plant fibres or spider silk through them to sew a leaf cup round its nest. Who acts: tailorbird. A sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers/13/) [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/) / [Animal builders: termite mounds, weave…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers/) / 13 # Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 13 The tailorbird pokes holes in leaves and pulls plant fibres or spider silk through them to sew a leaf cup round its nest. **Who acts:** tailorbird · **What happens:** poke, pull, sew · **To what, where:** holes, leaves, plant fibres, leaf cup This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers» 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 (tailorbird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.lesson:13 # text = The tailorbird pokes holes in leaves and pulls plant fibres or spider silk through them to sew a leaf cup round its nest. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tailorbird tailorbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pokes poke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 fibres fibre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:mark 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 sew sew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 round round ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **poke** | present | the tailorbird | holes | | leaves | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | | 2 | **pull** | present | the tailorbird *not said here* | plant fibres or spider silk | | | | through fibres *= fibre* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fibre=Theme | | 3 | **sew** | to-infinitive | the tailorbird *not said here* | a leaf cup | | | | round tailorbird's nest | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Product | 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:243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.lesson:13`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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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