Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 14
The kea is a big green mountain parrot of New Zealand, one of the very few parrots that live among snowy mountains; its curiosity helps it find food in a harsh place.
Who acts: kea, few parrots, curiosity · What happens: be, live, help, find · To what, where: big mountain parrot, snowy mountains, kea, food, harsh place
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 (kea, few parrots, curiosity), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kea | det |
| 2 | kea | kea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 parrot | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 parrot | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 parrot | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 parrot | amod |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mountain | amod |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 parrot | compound |
| 8 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Zealand | case |
| 10 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Zealand | flat |
| 11 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 parrot | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 parrot | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 parrots | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 parrots | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 few | advmod |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 parrots | amod |
| 18 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 live | nsubj |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 parrots | acl:relcl |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 mountains | case |
| 22 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mountains | amod |
| 23 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 live | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 helps | punct |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 26 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 helps | nsubj |
| 27 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | parataxis |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 helps | obj |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 helps | xcomp |
| 30 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 find | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 place | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 place | det |
| 33 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 place | amod |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 find | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 parrot | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the kea | a big mountain parrot | of New Zealand | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | present | the few parrots | snowy mountains | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among mountain=Location | ||||
| 3 | help | present | kea's curiosity | kea | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | infinitive | kea not said here | food | a harsh place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
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:14.
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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