Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 11
Many parrots copy words and sounds such as phones and doorbells, the way wild parrots copy their flock's calls; an African grey called Alex learned to name over 50 objects, colours and shapes.
Who acts: Many parrots, wild parrots, African grey, flock · What happens: copy, call, learn, name · To what, where: words, way, African grey, 50 objects · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» of the biology 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 (Many parrots, wild parrots, African grey, flock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 parrots | amod |
| 2 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 copy | nsubj |
| 3 | copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 copy | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sounds | cc |
| 6 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 words | conj |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 phones | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 such | fixed |
| 9 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 words | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 doorbells | cc |
| 11 | doorbells | doorbell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 phones | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 copy | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 copy | obl |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 parrots | amod |
| 16 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 copy | nsubj |
| 17 | copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 copy | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 flock | nmod:poss |
| 19 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 calls | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 flock | case |
| 21 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 copy | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 grey | punct |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 grey | det |
| 24 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grey | amod |
| 25 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 copy | parataxis |
| 26 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 grey | acl |
| 27 | Alex | Alex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 called | xcomp |
| 28 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 grey | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 name | mark |
| 30 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 learned | xcomp |
| 31 | over | over | ADV | _ | 32 50 | advmod |
| 32 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 objects | nummod |
| 33 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 name | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 colours | punct |
| 35 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 objects | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 shapes | cc |
| 37 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 objects | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 copy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | present | Many parrots | words and sounds | such phones and doorbells | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 2 | copy | present | wild parrots | the way | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a African grey not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | learn | past | a African grey not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | name | to-infinitive | a African grey not said here | 50 objects and colours and shapes | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Theme | ||||
| 6 | call | horses's flock | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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, 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:biology:139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.lesson:11.
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 ×3. 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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