--- title: Birds are the only animals alive today with feathers, and nearly eve… — Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight · tree and pragmatics description: Birds are the only animals alive today with feathers, and nearly every part of a bird is built to be light and strong for flying. Who acts: Birds. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.lesson:0 # text = Birds are the only animals alive today with feathers, and nearly every part of a bird is built to be light and strong for flying. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 7 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 12 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 22 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 25 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 flying fly VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Birds | the only animals | | | today | with feathers | tree rules | | 2 | **build** | present · passive | | every part of a bird | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | light *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.lesson:0`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/17/) - next →: [Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/)