--- title: Many birds that eat seeds feed their chicks insects for protein, and… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics description: Many birds that eat seeds feed their chicks insects for protein, and a pair of blue tits can bring around 10 000 caterpillars to one brood; most birds nest in spring, when insects are most plentiful. Who acts: Many birds, pair, most birds, insects. 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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 (Many birds, pair, most birds, insects), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:12 # text = Many birds that eat seeds feed their chicks insects for protein, and a pair of blue tits can bring around 10 000 caterpillars to one brood; most birds nest in spring, when insects are most plentiful. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod:poss 8 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound 9 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 protein protein NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 tits tit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 21 around around ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 compound _ _ 23 000 000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 brood brood NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 nest nest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 36 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 39 advmod _ _ 39 plentiful plentiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **eat** | present | Many birds | seeds | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient | | 2 | **feed** | present | Many birds | insects | birds's chicks | | | for protein | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent chick=Recipient insect=Theme | | 3 | **bring around** | can | a pair of blue tits | 000 caterpillars | | one brood | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Theme to brood=Destination | | 4 | **nest** | present | most birds | | | | spring | | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | insects | | | | | plentiful *property* | tree rules | 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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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