Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 10

Cockatoos raise their crest feathers when excited or alarmed; in Sydney, cockatoos learned to flip open wheelie bins and the trick spread from suburb to suburb.

Who acts: Cockatoos, trick · What happens: raise, alarm, learn, flip, spread · To what, where: crest feathers, Sydney, open wheelie bins, suburb

This is a sentence of the lesson «Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea» 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 (Cockatoos, trick), 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	Cockatoos	cockatoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 raise	nsubj
2	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feathers	nmod:poss
4	crest	crest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feathers	compound
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 raise	obj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 excited	mark
7	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 raise	advcl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 alarmed	cc
9	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 excited	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 learned	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Sydney	case
12	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 learned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Sydney	punct
14	cockatoos	cockatoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 learned	nsubj
15	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raise	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 flip	mark
17	flip	flip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 learned	xcomp
18	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bins	amod
19	wheelie	wheelie	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bins	compound
20	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flip	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 spread	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 trick	det
23	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spread	nsubj
24	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 learned	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 suburb	case
26	suburb	suburb	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spread	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 suburb	case
28	suburb	suburb	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 suburb	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 raise	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	raise	present	Cockatoos	Cockatoos's crest feathers		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme
2	alarm	participle	Cockatoos not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	learn	past	cockatoos		Sydney	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	flip	to-infinitive	cockatoos not said here	open wheelie bins		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Theme
5	spread	past	the trick		suburb to suburb	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea.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): R7-rel-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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