Take this example where a child component yields it's #header to the header in the parent component:
// Child component
behaviors: {
'#header': {
'$yield': '#title'
}
},
tree: `<node id="header"><h1>Title</h1></node>`
// Parent component
tree: `
<user:child>
<node id='header">
<h1>Different title</h1>
</node>
</user:child>`
The content from the child #header is not replaced by the content from the parent. Instead both <h1>s are rendered.
Linguistically, at least, it would make better sense if when a node is directed to yield it completely hands over responsibility for what is rendered inside to the node it is yielding to.