Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 11

Pigeons can tell people apart by their faces, and in experiments they even learned to tell paintings by different artists apart.

Who acts: Pigeons · What happens: tell, learn · To what, where: people, experiments, paintings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs» 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 (Pigeons), 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	Pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	obj
5	apart	apart	ADV	_	3 tell	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 faces	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 faces	nmod:poss
8	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 learned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 learned	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 experiments	case
12	experiments	experiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 learned	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 learned	nsubj
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 learned	advmod
15	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tell	mark
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 learned	xcomp
18	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tell	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 artists	case
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 artists	amod
21	artists	artist	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tell	obl
22	apart	apart	ADV	_	17 tell	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	Pigeons		people		by pigeons's faces; apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
2	learn	past	pigeons = pigeon			experiments		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	pigeons = pigeon not said here	paintings			by different artists; apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent painting=Recipient

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:221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs.lesson:11.

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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