---
title: Others are tricksters: a cuckoo leaves its egg for a small reed warb… — Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrot… · tree and pragmatics
description: Others are tricksters: a cuckoo leaves its egg for a small reed warbler to raise, and a lyrebird copies a camera shutter and a chainsaw. Who acts: Others, cuckoo, lyrebird. A sentence of the lesson «Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows» of the biology cou
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Birds of every kind: penguins, ostrich…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/) / 3

# Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows, sentence 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Others are tricksters: a cuckoo leaves its egg for a small reed warbler to raise, and a lyrebird copies a camera shutter and a chainsaw.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Others, cuckoo, lyrebird · **What happens:** be, leave, raise, copy · **To what, where:** tricksters, egg, camera shutter

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows» 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 (Others, cuckoo, lyrebird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:035-birds-of-every-kind.lesson:3
# text = Others are tricksters: a cuckoo leaves its egg for a small reed warbler to raise, and a lyrebird copies a camera shutter and a chainsaw.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 035-birds-of-every-kind.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
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	tricksters	trickster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	warbler	warbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lyrebird	lyrebird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	copies	copy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	shutter	shutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	chainsaw	chainsaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Others | tricksters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | present | a cuckoo | cuckoo's egg |  |  |  | for a small reed warbler | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent egg=Theme for warbler=Recipient |
| 3 | **raise** | to-infinitive | a cuckoo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **copy** | present | a lyrebird | a camera shutter and a chainsaw |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shutter=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:035-birds-of-every-kind.lesson:3`.

**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. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Birds of every kind: penguins, ostrich…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/2/)
- next →: [Birds of every kind: penguins, ostrich…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/4/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/)