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title: Watching real footage, such as a nest camera, is a good way to test… — Birds and baby animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Watching real footage, such as a nest camera, is a good way to test a claim about how birds behave. Who acts: Watching, birds. A sentence of the lesson «Birds and baby animals» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Birds and baby animals, sentence 16

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Watching real footage, such as a nest camera, is a good way to test a claim about how birds behave.

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**Who acts:** Watching, birds · **What happens:** watch, be, test, behave · **To what, where:** real footage, good way, claim

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds and baby animals» of the myths 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 (Watching, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:010-birds-and-baby-animals.lesson:16
# text = Watching real footage, such as a nest camera, is a good way to test a claim about how birds behave.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 010-birds-and-baby-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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	footage	footage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	behave	behave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **watch** | gerund |  | real footage |  |  |  | such a nest camera | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footage=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Watching | a good way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **test** | to-infinitive |  | a claim |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme |
| 4 | **behave** | present | birds |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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:myths:010-birds-and-baby-animals.lesson:16`.

**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 ×2. **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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