Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 13

Lorikeets have brush-tipped tongues for licking nectar and pollen from flowers, and they are noisy visitors to gardens in eastern Australia.

Who acts: Lorikeets, tipped tongues · What happens: have, tip, lick, be · To what, where: tipped tongues, nectar, flowers, noisy visitors

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 (Lorikeets, tipped tongues), 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	Lorikeets	lorikeet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tipped	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 brush	punct
5	tipped	tip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 tongues	amod
6	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 licking	mark
8	licking	lick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tongues	acl
9	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 licking	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pollen	cc
11	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nectar	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 flowers	case
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 licking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 visitors	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 visitors	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 visitors	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 visitors	cop
18	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 visitors	amod
19	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 gardens	case
21	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 visitors	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 Australia	case
23	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Australia	amod
24	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 gardens	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Lorikeets	tipped tongues			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient
2	tip	participle					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lick	gerund	tipped tongues not said here	nectar and pollen	flowers		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme from flower=Source
4	is a	present	Lorikeets = lorikeet	noisy visitors		to gardens in eastern Australia	tree rules

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:13.

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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