Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 2

A real parrot copies words the way a wild parrot copies its flock, and it climbs its cage using its beak as a third foot.

Who acts: real parrot, wild parrot, parrot · What happens: copy, climb, use · To what, where: words, flock, cage, beak

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 (real parrot, wild parrot, parrot), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 parrot	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parrot	amod
3	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 copies	nsubj
4	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 copies	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 copies	obl:unmarked
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 parrot	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 parrot	amod
10	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 copies	nsubj
11	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	acl
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 flock	nmod:poss
13	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 copies	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 climbs	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 climbs	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 climbs	nsubj
17	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 copies	conj
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 cage	nmod:poss
19	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 climbs	obj
20	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 climbs	advcl
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 beak	nmod:poss
22	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 using	obj
23	as	as	ADP	_	26 foot	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 foot	det
25	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 foot	amod
26	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 using	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 copies	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	copy	present	a real parrot	words	the way obl:unmarked	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	copy	present	a wild parrot	parrot's flock		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme
3	climb	present	parrot	parrot's cage		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cage=Theme
4	use	gerund	parrot not said here	parrot's beak	as a third foot	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent beak=Duration as foot=Attribute

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:2.

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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