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title: Most birds have a poor sense of smell and won't abandon a chick beca… — Birds and baby animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Most birds have a poor sense of smell and won't abandon a chick because a person touched it; still, fledglings on the ground are usually fine and their parents nearby, so it's best to leave them. Who acts: Most birds, person, fledglings. A sentence of the lesson «Birds and baby animals» of the myths
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# Birds and baby animals, sentence 6

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Most birds have a poor sense of smell and won't abandon a chick because a person touched it; still, fledglings on the ground are usually fine and their parents nearby, so it's best to leave them.

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**Who acts:** Most birds, person, fledglings · **What happens:** have, not abandon, touch, be, leave, sense · **To what, where:** poor sense, chick, birds, 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, person, fledglings), 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:6
# text = Most birds have a poor sense of smell and won't abandon a chick because a person touched it; still, fledglings on the ground are usually fine and their parents nearby, so it's best to leave them.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
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	38	parataxis	_	_
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	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	abandon	abandon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chick	chick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	fledglings	fledgling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	29	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	expl	_	_
37	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:advcl
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38: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 | **have** | present | Most birds | a poor sense of smell |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **abandon** | future | Most birds *not said here* | a chick |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme chick=Source |
| 3 | **touch** | past | a person | chick |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | fledglings on the ground |  |  |  |  | fine, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 7 | **sense** |  |  | smell |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:6`.

**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, 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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