--- title: Most birds have a poor sense of smell and will not reject a chick th… — Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemm… · tree and pragmatics description: Most birds have a poor sense of smell and will not reject a chick that a person touched, but it is still best to leave wild babies alone. Who acts: Most birds, person. 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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 (Most birds, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:10 # text = Most birds have a poor sense of smell and will not reject a chick that a person touched, but it is still best to leave wild babies alone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 reject reject VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 csubj _ _ 27 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 alone alone ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 . . 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 | **have** | present | Most birds | a poor sense of smell | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient | | 2 | **not** **reject** | future | Most birds *not said here* | a chick | | | | | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Theme | | 3 | **touch** | past | a person | a chick | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Co-Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | Most birds *not said here* | | | | still | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **leave** | to-infinitive | | wild babies | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | | 6 | **sense** | | | smell | | | | | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:10`. **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, R8-pos-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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