--- title: Birds can sit on a power line because they touch only one wire and n… — Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Birds can sit on a power line because they touch only one wire and not the ground; a kite string touching a line can let electricity pass through a person to the ground. Who acts: Birds, kite string, electricity. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Birds, kite string, electricity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.lesson:12 # text = Birds can sit on a power line because they touch only one wire and not the ground; a kite string touching a line can let electricity pass through a person to the ground. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.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 1 Birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 kite kite NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 touching touch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 27 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 through through ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **sit** | can | Birds | | | a power line | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on line=Location | | 2 | **touch** | present | Birds *= bird* | one wire and the ground | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wire=Co-Theme | | 3 | **touch** | gerund | a kite string *not said here* | a line | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme line=Co-Theme | | 4 | **let** | can | a kite string | electricity | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pass** | infinitive | electricity *not said here* | | | the ground | | through a person | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through person=Initial\_Location to ground=Destination | 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:technology:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.lesson:12`. **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. **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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