The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants, sentence 13
A grey parrot called Alex learned to name colours, shapes and numbers in experiments with Irene Pepperberg.
Who acts: grey parrot · What happens: call, learn, name · To what, where: grey parrot, colours · 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 (grey 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 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 parrot | amod |
| 3 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learned | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 parrot | acl |
| 5 | Alex | Alex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 name | mark |
| 8 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 learned | xcomp |
| 9 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 name | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shapes | punct |
| 11 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 colours | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 numbers | cc |
| 13 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 colours | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 experiments | case |
| 15 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 numbers | nmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Pepperberg | case |
| 17 | Irene | Irene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Pepperberg | compound |
| 18 | Pepperberg | Pepperberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 experiments | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a grey parrot not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | learn | past | a grey parrot | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | name | to-infinitive | a grey parrot not said here | colours and shapes and numbers in experiments with Irene Pepperberg | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme |
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:13.
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): no change. 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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