The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy, sentence 15
Scarlet macaws fly in pairs that stay together for many years, nest in tree holes and eat clay from riverbanks, which scientists think gives them scarce salt.
Who acts: Scarlet macaws, pairs, riverbanks · What happens: fly, stay together, nest, eat, think, give · To what, where: pairs, tree holes, clay, riverbanks, scarce salt, scientists · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» 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 (Scarlet macaws, pairs, riverbanks), 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 | Scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 macaws | compound |
| 2 | macaws | macaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pairs | case |
| 5 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fly | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pairs | acl:relcl |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 stay | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 years | amod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nest | punct |
| 13 | nest | nest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 holes | case |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 holes | compound |
| 16 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 nest | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 eat | cc |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 nest | conj |
| 19 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eat | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 riverbanks | case |
| 21 | riverbanks | riverbank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 eat | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 think | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 think | nsubj |
| 24 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 think | nsubj |
| 25 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 riverbanks | acl:relcl |
| 26 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 think | ccomp |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gives | iobj |
| 28 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 salt | amod |
| 29 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gives | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | Scarlet macaws | pairs | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pair=Location | ||||
| 2 | stay together | present | pairs | year | together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | nest | present | Scarlet macaws not said here | tree holes | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | eat | present | Scarlet macaws not said here | clay | riverbanks | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clay=Patient | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | present | riverbanks | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | give | present | scarce salt | scientists = scientist | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient salt=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:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.lesson:15.
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): 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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