--- title: Baby birds are very hard to keep alive, even for experts; a fledglin… — Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too… · tree and pragmatics description: Baby birds are very hard to keep alive, even for experts; a fledgling on the ground is often still fed by its parents nearby. Who acts: Baby birds, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/10/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Garden burials, wild animals and a new…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/) / 10 # Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 10 Baby birds are very hard to keep alive, even for experts; a fledgling on the ground is often still fed by its parents nearby. **Who acts:** Baby birds, parents · **What happens:** be, keep, feed · **To what, where:** fledgling This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» of the religion ethics 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 (Baby birds, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:10 # text = Baby birds are very hard to keep alive, even for experts; a fledgling on the ground is often still fed by its parents nearby. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.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 ×1 1 Baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 even even ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 fledgling fledgling NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Baby birds | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Baby birds *not said here* | | | | | for experts; alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **feed** | present · passive | fledgling's parents | a fledgling on the ground | | | still | nearby, often *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | 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:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:10`. **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 ×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. 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