Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 3
A parrot's hooked beak is a nutcracker, a spoon and a third foot all at once, and a big parrot can live sixty years or more, so a parrot may outlive the person who bought it.
Who acts: hooked beak, big parrot, parrot, person · What happens: hook, be, live, outlive, buy · To what, where: nutcracker, person
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 (hooked beak, big parrot, parrot, person), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 parrot | det |
| 2 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beak | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 parrot | case |
| 4 | hooked | hook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 beak | amod |
| 5 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nutcracker | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 nutcracker | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 nutcracker | det |
| 8 | nutcracker | nutcracker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoon | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 spoon | det |
| 11 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nutcracker | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 foot | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 foot | det |
| 14 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 foot | amod |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nutcracker | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 spoon | appos |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 all | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 live | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 live | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 parrot | det |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 parrot | amod |
| 23 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 live | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 live | aux |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 nutcracker | conj |
| 26 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 live | obl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 more | cc |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 years | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 outlive | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 outlive | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 parrot | det |
| 33 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 outlive | nsubj |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 outlive | aux |
| 35 | outlive | outlive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 nutcracker | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 person | det |
| 37 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 outlive | obj |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 bought | nsubj |
| 39 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 person | acl:relcl |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 bought | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 nutcracker | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hook | participle | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a parrot's hooked beak | a nutcracker and a spoon and a third foot | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | can | a big parrot | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | outlive | may | a parrot | the person | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | buy | past | the person | person | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:3.
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, 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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