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title: It is against the law in many countries to disturb the nests of wild… — Wild birds, bats and germs from animals · tree and pragmatics
description: It is against the law in many countries to disturb the nests of wild birds or take their eggs. A sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 18

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It is against the law in many countries to disturb the nests of wild birds or take their eggs.

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**What happens:** be, disturb, take · **To what, where:** many countries, nests, eggs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:18
# text = It is against the law in many countries to disturb the nests of wild birds or take their eggs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 029-germs-from-animals.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 ×2
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:acl
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present |  |  |  | many countries |  | against the law | tree rules |
| 2 | **disturb** | to-infinitive |  | the nests of wild birds |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nest=Experiencer |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | bird's eggs |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |

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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:everyday:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:18`.

**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 ×2. **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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