Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 16

Some parrots move in time to a beat, and a cockatoo called Snowball became famous for dancing; keeping to a beat is rare in animals.

Who acts: parrots, cockatoo, keeping · What happens: move, call, become, dance, keep, be · To what, where: beat, cockatoo · 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 (parrots, cockatoo, keeping), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 parrots	det
2	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	nsubj
3	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 time	case
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 move	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 beat	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beat	det
8	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 move	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 became	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cockatoo	det
12	cockatoo	cockatoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	nsubj
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cockatoo	acl
14	Snowball	Snowball	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 called	xcomp
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 move	conj
16	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 became	xcomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 dancing	case
18	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 famous	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 keeping	punct
20	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 rare	csubj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 beat	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 beat	det
23	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 keeping	obl
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 rare	cop
25	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 move	parataxis
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 animals	case
27	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rare	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 move	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	some parrots		a beat	time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to beat=Trajectory
2	call	participle		a cockatoo not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	a cockatoo				famous property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	dance	gerund						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	keep	gerund					to a beat	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	keeping				in animals; rare property	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:16.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.

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