--- title: Many baby birds found on the ground are fledglings that have left th… — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics description: Many baby birds found on the ground are fledglings that have left the nest before they can fly well, and their parents are still feeding them nearby. Who acts: Many baby birds, fledglings, animals, parents. 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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 (Many baby birds, fledglings, animals, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:12 # text = Many baby birds found on the ground are fledglings that have left the nest before they can fly well, and their parents are still feeding them nearby. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 fledglings fledgling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 before before SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 19 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 still still ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 feeding feed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **find** | participle | | Many baby birds *not said here* | | the ground | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Many baby birds | fledglings | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** | present · perfect | fledglings | the nest | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme | | 4 | **fly** | can | animals *= animal* | | | | | well *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **feed** | present · progressive | animals's parents | animals *= animal* | | | still | nearby *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | 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:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:12`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What a child can do for nature, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/11/) - next →: [What a child can do for nature, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/)