Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 5

Whether parrots understand what they say is still argued; Alex seemed to use some words with meaning, but most pet parrots copy sounds they hear often.

Who acts: parrots, Alex, most pet parrots · What happens: understand, say, argue, seem, use, copy · To what, where: words, sounds · 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, Alex, most pet parrots), 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	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	3 understand	mark
2	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 understand	nsubj
3	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 argued	csubj:pass
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 say	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	ccomp
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 argued	aux:pass
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 argued	advmod
9	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 seemed	parataxis
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
11	Alex	Alex	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 use	mark
14	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seemed	xcomp
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 words	det
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 use	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 meaning	case
18	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 use	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 copy	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 copy	cc
21	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 parrots	amod
22	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 parrots	compound
23	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 copy	nsubj
24	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 seemed	parataxis
25	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 copy	obj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hear	nsubj
27	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sounds	acl:relcl
28	often	often	ADV	_	27 hear	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed hedge=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	understand	present	parrots				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	Parrots = parrot				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	argue speech: disagree	present · passive			still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»
4	seem	past	Alex				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	use	to-infinitive	Alex not said here	some words		with meaning	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
6	copy	present	most pet parrots	sounds			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
7	hear	present	Parrots = parrot	sounds not said here		often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus

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:5.

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 ×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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