Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 7

Parrots climb with their beak as a third foot, and their feet have two toes pointing forward and two back, so they can grip branches and hold food like a hand.

Who acts: Parrots, feet, two toes · What happens: climb, have, point, grip, hold · To what, where: two toes, branches, food

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, feet, two toes), 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	Parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 climb	nsubj
2	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 beak	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 beak	nmod:poss
5	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climb	obl
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 foot	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 foot	det
8	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 foot	amod
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climb	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 feet	nmod:poss
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 climb	conj
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 toes	nummod
16	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obj
17	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 toes	acl
18	forward	forward	ADV	_	17 pointing	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 two	cc
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 toes	conj
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 two	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 grip	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 grip	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 grip	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 grip	aux
26	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 climb	parataxis
27	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 grip	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hold	cc
29	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 grip	conj
30	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hold	obj
31	like	like	ADP	_	33 hand	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hand	det
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hold	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 climb	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	climb	present	Parrots		with Parrots's beak; as a third foot	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	Parrots's feet	two toes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient
3	point	gerund	two toes not said here		forward property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grip	can	Parrots = parrot	branches		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Experiencer
5	hold	infinitive	Parrots = parrot not said here	food	like a hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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:7.

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): no change. 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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