Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 14
The kea is a curious mountain parrot from New Zealand that solves problems, steals food and sometimes pulls rubber off cars.
Who acts: kea, curious mountain parrot · What happens: be, solve, steal, pull · To what, where: curious mountain parrot, New Zealand, problems, food, rubber, cars
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 (kea, curious mountain parrot), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kea | det |
| 2 | kea | kea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 parrot | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 parrot | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 parrot | det |
| 5 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 parrot | amod |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 parrot | compound |
| 7 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Zealand | case |
| 9 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Zealand | flat |
| 10 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 parrot | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 solves | nsubj |
| 12 | solves | solve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 parrot | acl:relcl |
| 13 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 solves | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 steals | punct |
| 15 | steals | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 solves | conj |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 steals | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pulls | cc |
| 18 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 pulls | advmod |
| 19 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 solves | conj |
| 20 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pulls | obj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 cars | case |
| 22 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pulls | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 parrot | 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 | is a | present | the kea | a curious mountain parrot | New Zealand | tree rules | |||
| 2 | solve | present | a curious mountain parrot | problems | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic | ||||
| 3 | steal | present | a curious mountain parrot not said here | food | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pull | present | a curious mountain parrot not said here | rubber | cars | sometimes property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent rubber=Theme off car=Initial_Location |
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:14.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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