Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 5
Some crows in Japan drop nuts at pedestrian crossings for cars to crack and pick them up safely when the lights stop the traffic.
Who acts: crows, cars, lights · What happens: drop, crack, pick up, stop · To what, where: nuts, pedestrian crossings, cars, traffic
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 (crows, cars, lights), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 crows | det |
| 2 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drop | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Japan | case |
| 4 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 crows | nmod |
| 5 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drop | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 crossings | case |
| 8 | pedestrian | pedestrian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crossings | compound |
| 9 | crossings | crossing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drop | obl |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 crack | mark |
| 11 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 crack | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 crack | mark |
| 13 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 drop | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pick | cc |
| 15 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 crack | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pick | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 pick | compound:prt |
| 18 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 15 pick | advmod |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | _ | 22 stop | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lights | det |
| 21 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stop | nsubj |
| 22 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pick | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 traffic | det |
| 24 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stop | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | some crows in Japan | nuts | pedestrian crossings | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nut=Theme at crossing=Destination | |||
| 2 | crack | to-infinitive | cars | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pick up | infinitive | cars not said here | cars = car | safely property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||
| 4 | stop | present | the lights | the traffic | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality traffic=Eventuality |
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:5.
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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