Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 1

Their brains are small, but the nerve cells are packed very tightly, so a crow's walnut-sized brain holds about as many as some monkey brains.

Who acts: brains, sized brain · What happens: be, pack, size, hold · To what, where: nerve cells, many

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots» 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 (brains, sized brain), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brains	nmod:poss
2	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 small	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 packed	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 packed	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cells	det
8	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cells	compound
9	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 packed	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 packed	aux:pass
11	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 small	conj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 tightly	advmod
13	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	11 packed	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 holds	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	23 holds	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 crow	det
17	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brain	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 crow	case
19	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sized	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 walnut	punct
21	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 brain	amod
22	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 holds	nsubj
23	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	conj
24	about	about	ADV	_	26 many	advmod
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 many	advmod
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 holds	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	30 brains	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 brains	det
29	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brains	compound
30	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 many	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 small	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Their brains		small property	tree rules
2	pack	present · passive		the nerve cells	tightly property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination
3	size	participle				tree rules
4	hold	present	a crow's sized brain	many	as some monkey brains	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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:233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots.lesson:1.

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 ×2. 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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