The city as a habitat, sentence 14

Carrion crows in Sendai, Japan, were filmed putting nuts on the road for cars to crack and picking up the pieces at the red light; crows can recognise human faces for years.

Who acts: crows · What happens: film, put, crack, pick up, recognise · To what, where: Carrion crows, nuts, road, pieces, red light, human faces

This is a sentence of the lesson «The city as a habitat» 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 (crows), 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	Carrion	carrion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crows	compound
2	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 filmed	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Sendai	case
4	Sendai	Sendai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 crows	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Japan	punct
6	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Sendai	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Sendai	punct
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 filmed	aux:pass
9	filmed	film	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 filmed	advcl
11	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 putting	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 road	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 road	det
14	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 putting	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 cars	case
16	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 putting	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 crack	mark
18	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 putting	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 picking	cc
20	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 putting	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 picking	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pieces	det
23	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 picking	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 light	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 light	det
26	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 light	amod
27	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 picking	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 recognise	punct
29	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 recognise	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 recognise	aux
31	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 filmed	parataxis
32	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 faces	amod
33	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 recognise	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 years	case
35	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 recognise	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 filmed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	film	past · passive		Carrion crows in Sendai				vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	put	gerund		nuts	the road		for cars	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme on road=Destination
3	crack	to-infinitive						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pick up	gerund		the pieces	the red light			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic
5	recognise	can	crows	human faces		year		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus

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:014-the-city-as-a-habitat.lesson:14.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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