Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 15
Many parrots bond strongly with one person and may bite strangers when nervous or jealous; pinned eyes (the dark centres shrinking to tiny dots), raised feathers and an open beak are warnings.
Who acts: Many parrots, dark centres, pinned eyes · What happens: bond, bite, pin, shrink, raise, be · To what, where: strangers, warnings
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 (Many parrots, dark centres, pinned eyes), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 parrots | amod |
| 2 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bond | nsubj |
| 3 | bond | bond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 3 bond | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 person | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 person | nummod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bond | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bite | cc |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bite | aux |
| 10 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bond | conj |
| 11 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bite | obj |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 nervous | advmod |
| 13 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bite | advcl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 jealous | cc |
| 15 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nervous | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 eyes | punct |
| 17 | pinned | pin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 warnings | nsubj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 centres | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 centres | det |
| 21 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 centres | amod |
| 22 | centres | centre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 eyes | appos |
| 23 | shrinking | shrink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 centres | acl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 dots | case |
| 25 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dots | amod |
| 26 | dots | dot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shrinking | obl |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 shrinking | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 feathers | punct |
| 29 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 feathers | amod |
| 30 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 eyes | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 beak | cc |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 beak | det |
| 33 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 beak | amod |
| 34 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eyes | conj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 warnings | cop |
| 36 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bond | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bond | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bond | present | Many parrots | with one person; strongly property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with person=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | bite | may | Many parrots not said here | strangers | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pin | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | shrink | gerund | the dark centres not said here | to tiny dots result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to dot=Result | ||||
| 5 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a | present | pinned eyes and raised feathers and a open beak | warnings | tree rules |
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:15.
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, 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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