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title: Most birds have a poor sense of smell, so a touch won't make parents… — Birds and baby animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Most birds have a poor sense of smell, so a touch won't make parents abandon a chick; but Molly's rule is still good, because a fledgling (a young bird that has just left the nest) on the ground usually has its parents close by, watching. Who acts: Most birds, touch, parents, rule. A sentence of the
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# Birds and baby animals, sentence 3

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Most birds have a poor sense of smell, so a touch won't make parents abandon a chick; but Molly's rule is still good, because a fledgling (a young bird that has just left the nest) on the ground usually has its parents close by, watching.

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**Who acts:** Most birds, touch, parents, rule, young bird, fledgling · **What happens:** have, not make, not abandon, be, leave, watch · **To what, where:** poor sense, parents, chick, nest, smell

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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 (Most birds, touch, parents, rule), 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:3
# text = Most birds have a poor sense of smell, so a touch won't make parents abandon a chick; but Molly's rule is still good, because a fledgling (a young bird that has just left the nest) on the ground usually has its parents close by, watching.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis
16	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	abandon	abandon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chick	chick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
29	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fledgling	fledgling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:obj
37	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	just	just	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
46	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
48	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
50	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	47	advmod	_	_
51	by	by	ADP	IN	_	50	fixed	_	_
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	xcomp	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Most birds | a poor sense of smell |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **make** | future | a touch | parents |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **abandon** | infinitive | parents *not said here* | a chick |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme chick=Source |
| 4 | **is** | present | Molly's rule |  |  |  | still | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | present · perfect | a young bird | the nest |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | present | a fledgling on the ground | chick's parents |  |  |  | close, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **watch** | gerund | chick's parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **sense** |  |  | smell |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **rule** |  | Molly |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:3`.

**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, 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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