Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 3

Pigeons are smarter than they look: they can tell people's faces apart and remember who chased them and who fed them.

Who acts: Pigeons · What happens: be, look, tell, remember, chase, feed · To what, where: faces, pigeons · 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 smarter	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smarter	cop
3	smarter	smart	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 look	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smarter	advcl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 smarter	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 smarter	parataxis
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 faces	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 people	case
13	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tell	obj
14	apart	apart	ADV	_	10 tell	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 remember	cc
16	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	conj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 chased	nsubj
18	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 remember	ccomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 chased	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fed	cc
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 fed	nsubj
22	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 chased	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fed	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smarter	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pigeons		smart property	tree rules
2	look	present	pigeons = pigeon			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	can	pigeons = pigeon	people's faces	apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent face=Recipient
4	remember	infinitive	pigeons = pigeon not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	chase	past		pigeons = pigeon		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	feed	past		pigeons = pigeon		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:3.

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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