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title: The American robin is a thrush, bigger than the British robin, with… — Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bal… · tree and pragmatics
description: The American robin is a thrush, bigger than the British robin, with a grey back and reddish breast, and it often finds worms by sight. Who acts: American robin, thrush. A sentence of the lesson «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, r
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# Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 12

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The American robin is a thrush, bigger than the British robin, with a grey back and reddish breast, and it often finds worms by sight.

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**Who acts:** American robin, thrush · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** thrush, worms

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins» 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 (American robin, thrush), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.lesson:12
# text = The American robin is a thrush, bigger than the British robin, with a grey back and reddish breast, and it often finds worms by sight.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thrush	thrush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	reddish	reddish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the American robin | a thrush |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present | thrush | worms |  |  |  | by sight; often *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Topic |

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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:080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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