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title: Small birds such as sparrows hop and leave pairs of prints, pigeons… — The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Small birds such as sparrows hop and leave pairs of prints, pigeons and crows walk and leave one print after another, and blackbirds can both hop and run. Who acts: Small birds, pigeons, blackbirds. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 
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# The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where, sentence 8

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Small birds such as sparrows hop and leave pairs of prints, pigeons and crows walk and leave one print after another, and blackbirds can both hop and run.

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**Who acts:** Small birds, pigeons, blackbirds · **What happens:** hop, leave, walk, run · **To what, where:** pairs, one print

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 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 (Small birds, pigeons, blackbirds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.lesson:8
# text = Small birds such as sparrows hop and leave pairs of prints, pigeons and crows walk and leave one print after another, and blackbirds can both hop and run.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	hop	hop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	prints	print	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
16	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc:preconj	_	_
28	hop	hop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hop** | present | Small birds such sparrows |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | present | Small birds such sparrows *not said here* | pairs of prints |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | present | pigeons and crows |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | present | pigeons and crows *not said here* | one print |  |  | after another |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent print=Theme |
| 5 | **hop** | can | blackbirds |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **run** | infinitive | blackbirds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.lesson:8`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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/).

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