Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 8

Crows recognise human faces; in Seattle, crows scolded a mask worn by people who had caught some of them for years and taught other crows to do it.

Who acts: Crows · What happens: recognise, scold, wear, catch, teach, do · To what, where: human faces, mask, Seattle, people, other crows, crow

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), 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	Crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 recognise	nsubj
2	recognise	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 faces	amod
4	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 recognise	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 scolded	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Seattle	case
7	Seattle	Seattle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 scolded	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Seattle	punct
9	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 scolded	nsubj
10	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 recognise	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mask	det
12	mask	mask	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scolded	obj
13	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 mask	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 people	case
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 worn	obl:agent
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 caught	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 caught	aux
18	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 people	acl:relcl
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 caught	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 some	nmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 years	case
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 caught	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 taught	cc
25	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 scolded	conj
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 crows	amod
27	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 taught	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 taught	xcomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 do	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 recognise	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	recognise	present	Crows	human faces				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
2	scold	past	crows	a mask		Seattle		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mask=Theme
3	wear	participle		a mask not said here				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4	catch	past · perfect · passive		people			year	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary some=Theme
5	teach speech: other	past	crows not said here		other crows			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent crow=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do	to-infinitive	crows not said here	crow				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:8.

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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