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title: A bird stunned by hitting a window can be put in a box in a quiet, d… — Respecting wild animals · tree and pragmatics
description: A bird stunned by hitting a window can be put in a box in a quiet, dark place by an adult, and most recover after a rest. Who acts: adult. A sentence of the lesson «Respecting wild animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Respecting wild animals, sentence 15

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A bird stunned by hitting a window can be put in a box in a quiet, dark place by an adult, and most recover after a rest.

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**Who acts:** adult · **What happens:** stun, hit, put, recover · **To what, where:** bird, window, box

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respecting wild animals» 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 (adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:15
# text = A bird stunned by hitting a window can be put in a box in a quiet, dark place by an adult, and most recover after a rest.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 070-respecting-wild-animals.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	stunned	stun	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **stun** | participle |  | a bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hit** | gerund |  | a window |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **put** | can · passive | a adult | a bird |  | a box |  | in a quiet dark place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in box=Destination |
| 4 | **recover** | infinitive | a adult *not said here* |  |  |  | after a rest |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:15`.

**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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