--- title: Keepers weigh birds often, because sick birds hide illness, since in… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics description: Keepers weigh birds often, because sick birds hide illness, since in the wild a weak-looking bird is more likely to be caught, and losing weight is often the first sign. Who acts: Keepers, sick birds, looking bird, losing. 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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 (Keepers, sick birds, looking bird, losing), 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:14 # text = Keepers weigh birds often, because sick birds hide illness, since in the wild a weak-looking bird is more likely to be caught, and losing weight is often the first sign. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 weigh weigh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 10 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 12 since since SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 amod _ _ 20 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 23 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 29 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:nsubj 30 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 32 often often ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 35 amod _ _ 35 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weigh** | present | Keepers | birds | | | | often *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme bird=Value | | 2 | **hide** | present | sick birds | illness | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Patient | | 3 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | a looking bird | | | the wild | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **catch** | to-infinitive · passive | a looking bird *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | | 6 | **lose** | gerund | | weight | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Eventuality | | 7 | **is a** | present | losing | the first sign | | | | often *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:14`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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