--- title: Birds are builders too: a weaver bird ties real knots in grass, a sw… — Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds an… · tree and pragmatics description: Birds are builders too: a weaver bird ties real knots in grass, a swallow sticks hundreds of beakfuls of mud under your roof, and a bowerbird builds a stage just to show off. Who acts: Birds, weaver bird, swallow, bowerbird. 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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, weaver bird, swallow, bowerbird), 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:3 # text = Birds are builders too: a weaver bird ties real knots in grass, a swallow sticks hundreds of beakfuls of mud under your roof, and a bowerbird builds a stage just to show off. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 builders builder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 weaver weaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 ties tie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 knots knot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 swallow swallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 sticks stick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 beakfuls beakful NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 under under ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bowerbird bowerbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 just just ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:acl 36 off off ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Birds | builders | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tie** | present | a weaver bird | real knots | | grass | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient | | 3 | **stick** | present | a swallow | hundreds of beakfuls of mud | | your roof | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme under roof=Destination | | 4 | **build** | present | a bowerbird | a stage | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stage=Product | | 5 | **show off** | to-infinitive | a bowerbird *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:3`. **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 ×2, 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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