--- title: A fledgling is a young bird with feathers that has left the nest and… — Thinking like an animal · tree and pragmatics description: A fledgling is a young bird with feathers that has left the nest and hops on the ground while its parents still feed it. Who acts: fledgling, feathers, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Thinking like an animal](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/) / 12 # Thinking like an animal, sentence 12 A fledgling is a young bird with feathers that has left the nest and hops on the ground while its parents still feed it. **Who acts:** fledgling, feathers, parents · **What happens:** be, leave, hop, feed · **To what, where:** young bird, nest, ground, fledgling This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» 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: who acts (fledgling, feathers, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:12 # text = A fledgling is a young bird with feathers that has left the nest and hops on the ground while its parents still feed it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 030-thinking-like-an-animal.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fledgling fledgling NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 hops hop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 still still ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a fledgling | a young bird | | | | with feathers | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | present · perfect | feathers | the nest | | the ground | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nest=Theme on ground=Location | | 3 | **hop** | present | feathers *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **feed** | present | fledgling's parents | fledgling | | | still | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:everyday:030-thinking-like-an-animal.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/). - ← previous: [Thinking like an animal, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/11/) - next →: [Thinking like an animal, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/)