--- title: A bird's beak shows what it eats: a hooked beak tears meat, a short… — Birds: feathers, nests and flight · tree and pragmatics description: A bird's beak shows what it eats: a hooked beak tears meat, a short thick beak cracks seeds, a long thin beak reaches nectar in flowers and a flat beak sifts food from water. Who acts: beak, bird, hooked beak, short thick beak. 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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 (beak, bird, hooked beak, short thick beak), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:073-birds-feathers-nests-flight.lesson:5 # text = A bird's beak shows what it eats: a hooked beak tears meat, a short thick beak cracks seeds, a long thin beak reaches nectar in flowers and a flat beak sifts food from water. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 073-birds-feathers-nests-flight.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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 hooked hook ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 tears tear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 cracks crack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 28 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 sifts sift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 36 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . 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 | **show** | present | a bird's beak | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **eat** | present | bird | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 3 | **tear** | present | a hooked beak | meat | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location meat=Theme | | 4 | **crack** | present | a short thick beak | seeds | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme | | 5 | **reach** | present | a long thin beak | nectar | | flowers | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme | | 6 | **sift** | present | a flat beak | food | | | | from water | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient from water=Co-Patient | 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:world:073-birds-feathers-nests-flight.lesson:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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: feathers, nests and flight, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/73-birds-feathers-nests-flight/4/) - next →: [Birds: feathers, nests and flight, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/73-birds-feathers-nests-flight/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/73-birds-feathers-nests-flight/)