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title: Birds are flock animals that need friends, space to fly and long nig… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics
description: Birds are flock animals that need friends, space to fly and long nights of sleep, and their small bodies are very sensitive: fumes from an overheated non-stick pan, avocado and chocolate can all kill a pet bird. Who acts: Birds, flock animals, friends, small bodies. A sentence of the lesson «Birds, 
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# Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 1

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Birds are flock animals that need friends, space to fly and long nights of sleep, and their small bodies are very sensitive: fumes from an overheated non-stick pan, avocado and chocolate can all kill a pet bird.

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**Who acts:** Birds, flock animals, friends, small bodies, fumes · **What happens:** be, need, fly, overheat, kill · **To what, where:** flock animals, friends, pet bird

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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 (Birds, flock animals, friends, small bodies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:1
# text = Birds are flock animals that need friends, space to fly and long nights of sleep, and their small bodies are very sensitive: fumes from an overheated non-stick pan, avocado and chocolate can all kill a pet bird.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.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 ×1
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	fumes	fume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	overheated	overheat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
30	non-stick	non-stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	avocado	avocado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	all	all	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	parataxis	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Birds | flock animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | flock animals | friends and space |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | friends and space *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | Birds's small bodies |  |  |  |  | sensitive *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **overheat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **kill** | can | fumes from a overheated non-stick pan and avocado and chocolate | a pet bird |  |  |  | all *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:1`.

**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 ×1. **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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