Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 13

Spix's macaw, the blue parrot of the film Rio, almost vanished from the wild, and some zoo-bred birds have been released in Brazil, it was reported.

What happens: vanish, breed, release, report · To what, where: wild, bred birds, Brazil, macaw

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: 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	Spix	Spix	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 macaw	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Spix	case
3	macaw	macaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reported	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 parrot	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 parrot	det
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 parrot	amod
7	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 macaw	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Rio	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 film	det
10	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 parrot	nmod:desc
11	Rio	Rio	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 film	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 vanished	punct
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 vanished	advmod
14	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 reported	ccomp
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 wild	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wild	det
17	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 vanished	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 zoo	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 zoo	cc
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 zoo	det
21	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bred	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 zoo	punct
23	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 birds	amod
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 released	nsubj:pass
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 released	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 released	aux:pass
27	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 vanished	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Brazil	case
29	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 released	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 released	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 reported	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 reported	aux:pass
33	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 reported	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	vanish	past		the wild	almost property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from wild=Initial_Location
2	breed	participle				tree rules
3	release	present · perfect · passive	bred birds	Brazil		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
4	report	past · passive	Spix's macaw			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute

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: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): R5-strong ×5, 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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