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title: A baby bird with no feathers on the ground has fallen out too early;… — Thinking like an animal · tree and pragmatics
description: A baby bird with no feathers on the ground has fallen out too early; if the nest is in reach, an adult can gently put it back. Who acts: baby bird, nest, adult. 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
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# Thinking like an animal, sentence 14

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A baby bird with no feathers on the ground has fallen out too early; if the nest is in reach, an adult can gently put it back.

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**Who acts:** baby bird, nest, adult · **What happens:** fall out, be, put back · **To what, where:** reach, bird

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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 (baby bird, nest, adult), 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:14
# text = A baby bird with no feathers on the ground has fallen out too early; if the nest is in reach, an adult can gently put it back.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **fall out** | present · perfect | a baby bird with no feathers on the ground |  |  |  |  | early, out *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the nest |  |  | reach |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put back** | can | a adult | bird |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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:030-thinking-like-an-animal.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): 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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