Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 12

In the Amazon, hundreds of macaws gather at river banks to eat clay, which may give them salt and help with harsh chemicals in some seeds; scientists still argue which reason matters most.

Who acts: hundreds, clay, scientists, reason · What happens: gather, eat, give, help, argue, matter · To what, where: Amazon, clay, salt, hundreds, seeds · 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 (hundreds, clay, scientists, reason), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 Amazon	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Amazon	det
3	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gather	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Amazon	punct
5	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gather	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 macaws	case
7	macaws	macaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hundreds	nmod
8	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 banks	case
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 banks	compound
11	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gather	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gather	advcl
14	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eat	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 give	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 clay	acl:relcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 help	cc
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 give	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 chemicals	case
24	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 chemicals	amod
25	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 help	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 seeds	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 seeds	det
28	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 give	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 argue	punct
30	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 argue	nsubj
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 argue	advmod
32	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gather	parataxis
33	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	34 reason	det
34	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 matters	nsubj
35	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 argue	ccomp
36	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	35 matters	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gather	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	present	hundreds of macaws			the Amazon		at river banks	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	hundreds of macaws not said here	clay					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clay=Patient
3	give	may	clay	salt	hundreds = hundred	some seeds			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient salt=Theme
4	help	infinitive	clay not said here					with harsh chemicals	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with chemical=Theme
5	argue speech: disagree	present	scientists				still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	matter	present	which reason						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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: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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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