--- title: Blackbirds build cup-shaped nests of grass, moss and mud in hedges a… — The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bum… · tree and pragmatics description: Blackbirds build cup-shaped nests of grass, moss and mud in hedges and bushes; the female builds and lays about three to five blue-green eggs with brown speckles. Who acts: Blackbirds, female. 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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 (Blackbirds, female), 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:9 # text = Blackbirds build cup-shaped nests of grass, moss and mud in hedges and bushes; the female builds and lays about three to five blue-green eggs with brown speckles. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Blackbirds blackbird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 5 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 hedges hedge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 female female NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 24 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nmod _ _ 27 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 speckles speckle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **build** | present | Blackbirds | shaped nests of grass and moss and mud | | hedges and bushes | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **build** | present | the female | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **lay about** | present | the female *not said here* | three green eggs | | | | with brown speckles | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | 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:9`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn,…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/8/) - next →: [The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn,…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/10/) - ↑ 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/)