Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 6
A parrot's hooked beak and strong jaw crack hard nuts and seeds, and big macaws open nuts that people need a hammer for.
Who acts: hooked beak, big macaws, people · What happens: hook, crack, open, need · To what, where: hard nuts, nuts
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 macaws, people), 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 | 9 crack | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 jaw | cc |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 jaw | amod |
| 8 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beak | conj |
| 9 | crack | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nuts | amod |
| 11 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crack | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seeds | cc |
| 13 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 nuts | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 open | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 open | cc |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 macaws | amod |
| 17 | macaws | macaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 open | nsubj |
| 18 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 crack | conj |
| 19 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 open | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 need | obj |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 need | nsubj |
| 22 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 nuts | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hammer | det |
| 24 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 need | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 need | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 crack | 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 | crack | present | a parrot's hooked beak and strong jaw | hard nuts and seeds | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open | present | big macaws | nuts | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme | ||||
| 4 | need | present | people | nuts | 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:6.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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