--- title: Bird flu spreads among wild birds and has killed many seabirds and e… — Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how… · tree and pragmatics description: Bird flu spreads among wild birds and has killed many seabirds and even sea lions; people should never touch dead or sick birds and should tell an adult, who can report them. Who acts: Bird flu, people, adult. 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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 (Bird flu, people, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:12 # text = Bird flu spreads among wild birds and has killed many seabirds and even sea lions; people should never touch dead or sick birds and should tell an adult, who can report them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 flu flu NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 among among ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 seabirds seabird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 21 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 report report VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:conj 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present | Bird flu | | | | | among wild birds | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bird=Location | | 2 | **kill** | present · perfect | Bird flu *not said here* | many seabirds and sea lions | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seabird=Theme | | 3 | **not** **touch** | should | people | dead birds | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Co-Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | people *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 5 | **report** | can | a adult | people | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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