Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 15
Keas can solve puzzles with several steps and work as a team; a study reported they can judge chances; the kea is endangered, with only a few thousand left.
Who acts: Keas, study, puzzles, kea, few thousand · What happens: solve, work, report, judge, be, leave · To what, where: puzzles, chances
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 (Keas, study, puzzles, kea), 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 | Keas | kea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 solve | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 solve | aux |
| 3 | solve | solve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | puzzles | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 solve | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 steps | case |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 steps | amod |
| 7 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 solve | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 work | cc |
| 9 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 solve | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 team | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 team | det |
| 12 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 work | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 reported | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 study | det |
| 15 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reported | nsubj |
| 16 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 solve | parataxis |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 judge | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 judge | aux |
| 19 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 reported | ccomp |
| 20 | chances | chance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 judge | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 endangered | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kea | det |
| 23 | kea | kea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 endangered | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 endangered | cop |
| 25 | endangered | endangered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 solve | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 left | punct |
| 27 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 32 left | mark |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 thousand | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 thousand | det |
| 30 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 thousand | amod |
| 31 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 left | nsubj |
| 32 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 endangered | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 solve | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | solve | can | Keas | puzzles | with several steps | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic | |||
| 2 | work | infinitive | Keas not said here | as a team | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as team=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | report | past | a study | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | judge | can | puzzles = puzzle | chances | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent chance=Value | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the kea | endangered property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | leave | past | a few thousand | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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.
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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, 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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