Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 12

Parrots use their strong curved beaks to crack nuts and as a third foot for climbing, and they hold food in one foot, many being left-footed or right-footed.

Who acts: Parrots, horses · What happens: use, curve, crack, hold, foot · To what, where: strong curved beaks, nuts, food, one foot

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 (Parrots, horses), 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	Parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 beaks	nmod:poss
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beaks	amod
5	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 beaks	amod
6	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 crack	mark
8	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 use	advcl
9	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crack	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 foot	cc
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 foot	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 foot	det
13	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 foot	amod
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nuts	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 climbing	case
16	climbing	climbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 foot	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hold	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hold	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hold	nsubj
20	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 use	conj
21	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hold	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 foot	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 foot	nummod
24	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hold	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 left	punct
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 left	nsubj
27	being	be	AUX	VerbForm=Ger	28 left	aux:pass
28	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 use	advcl
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 footed	punct
30	footed	foot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 left	parataxis
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 footed	cc
32	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 footed	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 right	punct
34	footed	foot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 footed	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	use	present	Parrots	horses's strong curved beaks		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient
2	curve	participle				vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
3	crack	to-infinitive	Parrots not said here	nuts and a third foot for climbing		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme
4	hold	present	horses = horse	food	one foot	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in foot=Location
5	foot	participle				tree rules

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: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): R8-pos-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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