--- title: For example, a bird preens every day, combing its feathers with its… — Birds: feathers, nests and flight · tree and pragmatics description: For example, a bird preens every day, combing its feathers with its beak and spreading oil from a gland near its tail, so a duck stays dry even after a dive. Who acts: bird, duck. 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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 (bird, duck), 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:6 # text = For example, a bird preens every day, combing its feathers with its beak and spreading oil from a gland near its tail, so a duck stays dry even after a dive. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 preens preen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 combing comb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 spreading spread VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 conj _ _ 18 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 gland gland NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 near near ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 30 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 even even ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 after after ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 dive dive NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **preen** | present | a bird | | | | day | for example | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **comb** | gerund | a bird *not said here* | bird's feathers | | | | with bird's beak | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | | 3 | **spread** | gerund | a bird *not said here* | oil | | a gland near bird's tail | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oil=Theme | | 4 | **stay** | present | a duck | | | | | dry *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:6`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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: feathers, nests and flight, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/73-birds-feathers-nests-flight/5/) - next →: [Birds: feathers, nests and flight, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/73-birds-feathers-nests-flight/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/73-birds-feathers-nests-flight/)