Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 11
A cockatoo called Snowball became famous for moving in time to music; keeping a beat is rare in animals, and a study reported he invented more than a dozen dance moves.
Who acts: cockatoo, keeping, study · What happens: call, become, move, keep, be, report · To what, where: cockatoo, music, beat, dozen dance moves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cockatoo, keeping, study), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cockatoo | det |
| 2 | cockatoo | cockatoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cockatoo | acl |
| 4 | Snowball | Snowball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 became | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 moving | mark |
| 8 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 famous | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moving | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 music | case |
| 12 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moving | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 rare | punct |
| 14 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 rare | csubj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 beat | det |
| 16 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keeping | obj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 rare | cop |
| 18 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 famous | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 animals | case |
| 20 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rare | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 reported | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 reported | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 study | det |
| 24 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reported | nsubj |
| 25 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 famous | conj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 invented | nsubj |
| 27 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 reported | ccomp |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 31 dozen | advmod |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 more | fixed |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 dozen | det |
| 31 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 moves | nummod |
| 32 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 moves | compound |
| 33 | moves | move | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 invented | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 famous | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a cockatoo not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | become | past | a cockatoo | famous property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | move | gerund | a cockatoo not said here | music | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to music=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | keep | gerund | a beat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | keeping | in animals; rare property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | report | past | a study | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | invent | past | study | dozen dance moves | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Result |
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: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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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