Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 2

The biggest are the macaws of Central and South American forests; a hyacinth macaw is about a metre long and cracks palm nuts so hard that people need a hammer.

Who acts: biggest, hyacinth macaw, people · What happens: be, crack, need · To what, where: macaws, metre, palm nuts, hammer

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 (biggest, hyacinth macaw, people), 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 biggest	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 macaws	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 macaws	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 macaws	det
5	macaws	macaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 forests	case
7	Central	Central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 forests	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 South	cc
9	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Central	conj
10	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 forests	amod
11	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 macaws	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 macaws	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 macaw	det
14	hyacinth	hyacinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 macaw	compound
15	macaw	macaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 metre	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 metre	cop
17	about	about	ADV	_	19 metre	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 metre	det
19	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 macaws	conj
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 metre	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cracks	cc
22	cracks	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 metre	conj
23	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nuts	compound
24	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cracks	obj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 hard	advmod
26	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 cracks	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 need	mark
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 need	nsubj
29	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 hard	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hammer	det
31	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 need	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 macaws	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the biggest	the macaws and a metre	of Central American forests	tree rules
2	is a	present	a hyacinth macaw	a metre	about, long property	tree rules
3	crack	present	a hyacinth macaw not said here	palm nuts	hard property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme
4	need	present	people	a hammer		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hammer=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:2.

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 ×3. 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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