--- title: Hummingbird nests are tiny cups of plant fluff held together with sp… — More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles,… · tree and pragmatics description: Hummingbird nests are tiny cups of plant fluff held together with spider silk, which stretches as the chicks grow, and a hummingbird egg is about the size of a jelly bean. Who acts: Hummingbird nests, spider silk, chicks, hummingbird egg. 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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 (Hummingbird nests, spider silk, chicks, hummingbird egg), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.lesson:15 # text = Hummingbird nests are tiny cups of plant fluff held together with spider silk, which stretches as the chicks grow, and a hummingbird egg is about the size of a jelly bean. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Hummingbird hummingbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 cups cup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 fluff fluff NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 together together ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stretches stretch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 hummingbird hummingbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 jelly jelly NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 bean bean NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | Hummingbird nests | tiny cups and the size | | | | of plant fluff | tree rules | | 2 | **hold together** | participle | | plant fluff *not said here* | | | | with spider silk; together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stretch** | present | spider silk | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **grow** | present | the chicks | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | a hummingbird egg | the size | | | | of a jelly bean; about *property* | tree rules | 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:245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.lesson:15`. **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): 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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