Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 1

That is why a pet African grey may say «hello» the moment the phone rings: it has learned that the ring and the word go together, the way you learn the tune of the school bell.

Who acts: That, pet African grey, phone, ring, you · What happens: be, say, ring, learn, go together · To what, where: moment, tune · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That, pet African grey, phone, ring), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 why	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 grey	det
5	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grey	compound
6	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grey	amod
7	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 why	ccomp
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 hello	punct
11	hello	hello	INTJ	_	9 say	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 hello	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obl:unmarked
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 phone	det
16	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rings	nsubj
17	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 moment	acl:relcl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 learned	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 learned	nsubj
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 learned	aux
21	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 say	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ring	det
24	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 word	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 word	det
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ring	conj
28	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 learned	ccomp
29	together	together	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 way	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 learned	advcl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 learn	nsubj
34	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 way	acl:relcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tune	det
36	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 learn	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 bell	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bell	det
39	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bell	compound
40	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tune	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That			why property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	may	a pet African grey		moment		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic
3	ring	present	the phone	the moment not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=Theme
4	learn	present · perfect	phone				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go together	present	the ring and the word			together property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	learn	present	you	the tune of the school bell			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=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:1.

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 ×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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