Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 7

In experiments, rooks and crows dropped stones into a tube of water to raise a floating treat, like the crow in Aesop's fable, and chose stones that sink.

Who acts: rooks, stones · What happens: drop, raise, float, choose, sink · To what, where: stones, experiments, floating treat

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 (rooks, stones), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 experiments	case
2	experiments	experiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dropped	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dropped	punct
4	rooks	rook	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dropped	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 crows	cc
6	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rooks	conj
7	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dropped	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 tube	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tube	det
11	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 water	case
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tube	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 raise	mark
15	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dropped	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 treat	det
17	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 treat	amod
18	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 raise	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 crow	punct
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 crow	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 crow	det
22	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 raise	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 fable	case
24	Aesop	Aesop	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 fable	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Aesop	case
26	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 crow	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 chose	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 chose	cc
29	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dropped	conj
30	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 chose	obj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 sink	nsubj
32	sink	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 stones	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop	past	rooks and crows	stones	experiments	into a tube of water	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in experiment=Destination into tube=Initial_Location
2	raise	to-infinitive	rooks and crows not said here	a floating treat		like the crow in Aesop's fable	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treat=Theme
3	float	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	choose	past	rooks and crows not said here	stones			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
5	sink	present	stones				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:7.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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