--- title: Birds bathe to keep their feathers clean and working well; fresh wat… — The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds… · tree and pragmatics description: Birds bathe to keep their feathers clean and working well; fresh water helps them in hot, dry weather, and starlings bathe in noisy crowds. Who acts: Birds, fresh water, starlings. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» of the biology course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/15/) [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 summer: flowers, aphids,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/) / 15 # The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day, sentence 15 Birds bathe to keep their feathers clean and working well; fresh water helps them in hot, dry weather, and starlings bathe in noisy crowds. **Who acts:** Birds, fresh water, starlings · **What happens:** bathe, keep, work, help · **To what, where:** feathers, hot dry weather This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» 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 (Birds, fresh water, starlings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.lesson:15 # text = Birds bathe to keep their feathers clean and working well; fresh water helps them in hot, dry weather, and starlings bathe in noisy crowds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.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 ×1 1 Birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bathe bathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 10 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 starlings starling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 bathe bathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 crowds crowd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **bathe** | present | Birds | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Birds *not said here* | birds's feathers | | | | clean *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | | 3 | **work** | gerund | Birds *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **help** | present | fresh water | feathers *= feather* | | hot dry weather | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | | 5 | **bathe** | present | starlings | | | | | in noisy crowds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in crowd=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:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.lesson:15`. **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 ×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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