--- title: Keepers watch closely, because birds hide illness; a bird weighed in… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics description: Keepers watch closely, because birds hide illness; a bird weighed in a cup on a scale can tell the keeper it is unwell long before it looks ill. Who acts: Keepers, birds, bird, illness. 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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, birds, bird, illness), 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:3 # text = Keepers watch closely, because birds hide illness; a bird weighed in a cup on a scale can tell the keeper it is unwell long before it looks ill. # 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): no change 1 Keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 closely closely ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 12 weighed weigh VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 scale scale NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 keeper keeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 unwell unwell ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 ccomp _ _ 26 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 27 before before SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 30 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | present | Keepers | | | | | closely *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hide** | present | birds | illness | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Patient | | 3 | **weigh** | participle | | a bird *not said here* | | a cup | | on a scale | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | a bird | the keeper | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent keeper=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | present | illness | | | | | unwell *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **look** | present | illness | | | | | ill, long *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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. 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