Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 9
A parrot that is bored, lonely or stressed may pull out its own feathers; parrots need company, toys and puzzles every day.
Who acts: parrot, parrots · What happens: be, stress, pull out, need · To what, where: own feathers, company
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 (parrot, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 parrot | det |
| 2 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pull | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 bored | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bored | cop |
| 5 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 parrot | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lonely | punct |
| 7 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bored | conj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 stressed | cc |
| 9 | stressed | stress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bored | conj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pull | aux |
| 11 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 pull | compound:prt |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feathers | amod |
| 15 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pull | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 need | punct |
| 17 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 need | nsubj |
| 18 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pull | parataxis |
| 19 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 need | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 toys | punct |
| 21 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 company | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 puzzles | cc |
| 23 | puzzles | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 toys | conj |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 need | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a parrot | bored property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a parrot not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | stress | participle | a parrot not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | pull out | may | a parrot | beak's own feathers | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | need | present | parrots | company and toys and puzzles | day | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot company=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:9.
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 ×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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