--- title: Mother birds don't push chicks out to teach flying; fledglings leave… — Birds and baby animals · tree and pragmatics description: Mother birds don't push chicks out to teach flying; fledglings leave when ready, and flying comes from instinct and practice, with parents encouraging. Who acts: Mother birds, fledglings, flying, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Birds and baby animals» of the myths course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/10-birds-and-baby-animals/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Birds and baby animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/10-birds-and-baby-animals/) / 8 # Birds and baby animals, sentence 8 Mother birds don't push chicks out to teach flying; fledglings leave when ready, and flying comes from instinct and practice, with parents encouraging. **Who acts:** Mother birds, fledglings, flying, parents · **What happens:** not push out, teach, fly, leave, come, encourage · **To what, where:** chicks, instinct 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 (Mother birds, fledglings, flying, parents), 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:8 # text = Mother birds don't push chicks out to teach flying; fledglings leave when ready, and flying comes from instinct and practice, with parents encouraging. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 10 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 12 fledglings fledgling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 15 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 flying flying NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 19 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 instinct instinct NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 with with SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 encouraging encourage VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **push out** | present · do-support | Mother birds | chicks | | | | out *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Theme | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Mother birds *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **fly** | gerund | Mother birds *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **leave** | present | fledglings | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come** | present | flying | | | instinct and practice | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from instinct=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **encourage** | gerund | parents | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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:8`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Birds and baby animals, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/10-birds-and-baby-animals/7/) - next →: [Birds and baby animals, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/10-birds-and-baby-animals/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/10-birds-and-baby-animals/)