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title: Budgies are flock birds that need a friend, a big cage and time to f… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics
description: Budgies are flock birds that need a friend, a big cage and time to fly in a safe room. Who acts: Budgies, flock birds. A sentence of the lesson «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 8

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Budgies are flock birds that need a friend, a big cage and time to fly in a safe room.

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**Who acts:** Budgies, flock birds · **What happens:** be, need, fly · **To what, where:** flock birds, friend, safe room

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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 (Budgies, flock birds), 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:8
# text = Budgies are flock birds that need a friend, a big cage and time to fly in a safe room.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Budgies	budgie	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	birds	bird	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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 a** | present | Budgies | flock birds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | flock birds | a friend and a big cage and time |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | to-infinitive | flock birds *not said here* |  |  | a safe room |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |

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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:8`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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