The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants, sentence 12
African grey parrots are famous copiers of sounds; wild ones copy their flock's calls, and pet ones copy words and household noises.
Who acts: African grey parrots, famous copiers, pet ones, flock · What happens: be, copy, call · To what, where: famous copiers, calls, words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants» 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 (African grey parrots, famous copiers, pet ones, 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 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 parrots | amod |
| 2 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 parrots | compound |
| 3 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 copiers | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 copiers | cop |
| 5 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 copiers | amod |
| 6 | copiers | copier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 copy | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sounds | case |
| 8 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 copiers | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 ones | punct |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ones | amod |
| 11 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 copy | nsubj |
| 12 | copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 flock | nmod:poss |
| 14 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 calls | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 flock | case |
| 16 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 copy | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 copy | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 copy | cc |
| 19 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ones | compound |
| 20 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 copy | nsubj |
| 21 | copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 copy | conj |
| 22 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 copy | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 noises | cc |
| 24 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 noises | compound |
| 25 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 words | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 copiers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | African grey parrots | famous copiers | of sounds | tree rules | |||
| 2 | copy | present | famous copiers | copiers's flock's calls | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | ||||
| 3 | copy | present | pet ones | words and household noises | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | copiers'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:159-the-congo-rainforest.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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