--- title: In Britain it is against the law to disturb a wild bird's nest while… — The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bum… · tree and pragmatics description: In Britain it is against the law to disturb a wild bird's nest while it is in use, so people watch from far away and avoid cutting hedges from March to August. Who acts: nest, people. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/) / 10 # The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 10 In Britain it is against the law to disturb a wild bird's nest while it is in use, so people watch from far away and avoid cutting hedges from March to August. **Who acts:** nest, people · **What happens:** be, disturb, watch, avoid, cut · **To what, where:** Britain, nest, use, hedges This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nest, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.lesson:10 # text = In Britain it is against the law to disturb a wild bird's nest while it is in use, so people watch from far away and avoid cutting hedges from March to August. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 against against ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 disturb disturb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 11 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 15 while while SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 xcomp _ _ 30 hedges hedge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | present | | | | Britain | | against the law | tree rules | | 2 | **disturb** | to-infinitive | | a wild bird's nest | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nest=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | nest | | | use | | | tree rules | | 4 | **watch** | present | people | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **avoid** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **cut** | gerund | people *not said here* | hedges | | | august; march | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hedge=Product | 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:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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