--- title: Many birds, like magpies, swoop at people near their nest in spring… — Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that a… · tree and pragmatics description: Many birds, like magpies, swoop at people near their nest in spring to protect their chicks; it stops when the chicks fly. Who acts: hedgehog, chicks. A sentence of the lesson «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/26/) [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/) / [Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: anim…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/) / 26 # Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 26 Many birds, like magpies, swoop at people near their nest in spring to protect their chicks; it stops when the chicks fly. **Who acts:** hedgehog, chicks · **What happens:** swoop, protect, stop, fly · **To what, where:** chicks This is a sentence of the lesson «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» 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 (hedgehog, chicks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.lesson:26 # text = Many birds, like magpies, swoop at people near their nest in spring to protect their chicks; it stops when the chicks fly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 magpies magpie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 swoop swoop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 near near ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 when when SCONJ WRB _ 25 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swoop** | present | | | | | spring | at people near people's nest | tree rules | | 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | | | people's chicks | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Beneficiary | | 3 | **stop** | present | hedgehog | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **fly** | present | the chicks | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.lesson:26`. **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: [Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: anim…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/25/) - next →: [Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: anim…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/)