Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 10
Alex, a grey parrot studied by Irene Pepperberg, learned over 100 words and could name colours, shapes and numbers up to six.
Who acts: Alex · What happens: study, learn, name · To what, where: grey parrot, 100 words, colours
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 (Alex), 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 | Alex | Alex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 learned | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 parrot | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 parrot | det |
| 4 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 parrot | amod |
| 5 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Alex | appos |
| 6 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 parrot | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Irene | case |
| 8 | Irene | Irene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 studied | obl:agent |
| 9 | Pepperberg | Pepperberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Irene | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alex | punct |
| 11 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 100 | advmod |
| 13 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 words | nummod |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 learned | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 name | cc |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 name | aux |
| 17 | name | name | VERB | Number=Sing | 11 learned | conj |
| 18 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 name | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shapes | punct |
| 20 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 colours | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 numbers | cc |
| 22 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 colours | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADV | _ | 25 six | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 six | case |
| 25 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 name | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | study | participle | a grey parrot not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | learn | past | Alex | 100 words | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | name | could | Alex not said here | colours and shapes and numbers | to six | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent colour=Theme to six=Attribute |
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:10.
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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