--- title: Before sunrise the blackbird and the robin start singing to claim th… — The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bum… · tree and pragmatics description: Before sunrise the blackbird and the robin start singing to claim their patch, and soon a blackbird flies past with a beak full of moss and mud for her nest. Who acts: blackbird. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» of the biology cours --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 2 Before sunrise the blackbird and the robin start singing to claim their patch, and soon a blackbird flies past with a beak full of moss and mud for her nest. **Who acts:** blackbird · **What happens:** start, sing, claim, fly · **To what, where:** patch 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 (blackbird), 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:2 # text = Before sunrise the blackbird and the robin start singing to claim their patch, and soon a blackbird flies past with a beak full of moss and mud for her nest. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Before before ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 sunrise sunrise NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 blackbird blackbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 7 robin robin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 singing sing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 claim claim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 blackbird blackbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 past past ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | the blackbird and the robin | | | | sunrise | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the blackbird and the robin *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the blackbird and the robin *not said here* | blackbird's patch | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent patch=Topic | | 4 | **fly** | present | a blackbird | | | | | with a beak; past, soon *property* | 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:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.lesson:2`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn,…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/1/) - next →: [The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn,…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/)