Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 11
Wild parrots copy the calls of their flock; a pet parrot treats its people as its flock, so it copies their words, polite or rude.
Who acts: Wild parrots, pet parrot, parrot, calls · What happens: copy, treat, call, word · To what, where: calls, people, words, flock · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wild parrots, pet parrot, parrot, calls), 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 parrots | amod |
| 2 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 copy | nsubj |
| 3 | copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 calls | det |
| 5 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 copy | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 flock | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 flock | nmod:poss |
| 8 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 calls | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 treats | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 parrot | det |
| 11 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 parrot | compound |
| 12 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treats | nsubj |
| 13 | treats | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 copy | parataxis |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 people | nmod:poss |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 treats | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 flock | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 flock | nmod:poss |
| 18 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treats | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 copies | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 copies | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 copies | nsubj |
| 22 | copies | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 copy | conj |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 words | nmod:poss |
| 24 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 copies | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 polite | punct |
| 26 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 words | amod |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 rude | cc |
| 28 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 polite | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 copy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | present | Wild parrots | the calls of calls's flock | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | ||||
| 2 | treat | present | a pet parrot | parrot's people | as parrot's flock | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Theme as flock=Attribute | |||
| 3 | copy | present | parrot | calls's words | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | calls's flock | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | word | calls = call | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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: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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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