--- title: Before a bird flies indoors you close windows and doors, cover mirro… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics description: Before a bird flies indoors you close windows and doors, cover mirrors and turn off fans. Who acts: bird, you. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/9/) [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/) / [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/) / 9 # Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 9 Before a bird flies indoors you close windows and doors, cover mirrors and turn off fans. **Who acts:** bird, you · **What happens:** fly, close, cover, turn off · **To what, where:** windows, mirrors, fans 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 (bird, you), 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:9 # text = Before a bird flies indoors you close windows and doors, cover mirrors and turn off fans. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 5 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 close close VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 mirrors mirror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 fans fan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=suggest, indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | present | a bird | | | | | indoors *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **close** | present | you | windows and doors | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient | | 3 | **cover** | infinitive | you *not said here* | mirrors | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mirror=Destination | | 4 | **turn off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | fans | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fan=Patient | 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:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:9`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/8/) - next →: [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/)