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title: Uncooked rice does not make birds explode; birds eat seeds and grain… — Birds and baby animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Uncooked rice does not make birds explode; birds eat seeds and grains all the time. Who acts: Uncooked rice, 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 7

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Uncooked rice does not make birds explode; birds eat seeds and grains all the time.

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**Who acts:** Uncooked rice, birds · **What happens:** not make, not explode, eat · **To what, where:** birds, seeds

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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 (Uncooked rice, 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:7
# text = Uncooked rice does not make birds explode; birds eat seeds and grains all the time.
# 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): no change
1	Uncooked	uncook	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	explode	explode	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Uncooked rice | birds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **explode** | infinitive | birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | present | birds | seeds and grains |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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