--- title: Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests; the cuckoo chick pushe… — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents · tree and pragmatics description: Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests; the cuckoo chick pushes the other eggs out, and its loud begging, which sounds like a whole nest of hungry chicks, makes the foster parents, such as reed warblers, feed a chick much bigger than themselves. Who acts: Cuckoos, cuckoo chick, loud begging. 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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 (Cuckoos, cuckoo chick, loud begging), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:049-babies.lesson:8 # text = Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests; the cuckoo chick pushes the other eggs out, and its loud begging, which sounds like a whole nest of hungry chicks, makes the foster parents, such as reed warblers, feed a chick much bigger than themselves. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 049-babies.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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Cuckoos cuckoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod:poss _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound 8 ' 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 cuckoo cuckoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 out out ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 begging begging NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 35 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 foster foster NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 43 case _ _ 41 as as ADP IN _ 40 fixed _ _ 42 reed reed NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 warblers warbler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:conj 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 much much ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 47 amod _ _ 50 than than ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 49 obl _ _ 52 . . 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 | **lay** | present | Cuckoos | Cuckoos's eggs | | other birds's nests | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in nest=Destination | | 2 | **push** | present | the cuckoo chick | the other eggs | | | | out *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | | 3 | **sound** | present | chick's loud begging | | | | | like a whole nest of hungry chicks | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **make** | present | chick's loud begging | the foster parents | | | | such reed warblers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset parent=Product | | 5 | **feed** | present | | | a chick | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Recipient | 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:049-babies.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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/7/) - next →: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/)