Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 0
Parrots are some of the cleverest birds on Earth, and they live in groups where every bird must learn the sounds of its flock.
Who acts: Parrots, bird · What happens: live, learn · To what, where: groups, sounds
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives» 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 (Parrots, bird), 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 | Parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 some | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 some | cop |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 birds | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 birds | det |
| 6 | cleverest | clever | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 birds | amod |
| 7 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 some | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Earth | case |
| 9 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 birds | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 live | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 live | nsubj |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 some | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 groups | case |
| 15 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 live | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 learn | advmod |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 bird | det |
| 18 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 learn | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 learn | aux |
| 20 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 groups | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sounds | det |
| 22 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 learn | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 flock | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 flock | nmod:poss |
| 25 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sounds | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 some | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Parrots = parrot | groups | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location | ||||
| 2 | learn | must | every bird | the sounds of its flock | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic |
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:206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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