Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 4
Cockatoos in Sydney learned to flip open wheelie bins, a cockatoo called Snowball danced in time to pop music, and in New Zealand the kea pulls rubber strips off cars just to find out what is underneath.
Who acts: Cockatoos, cockatoo, kea · What happens: learn, flip, call, dance, pop, pull · To what, where: open wheelie bins, cockatoo, music, rubber strips, New Zealand · 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 (Cockatoos, cockatoo, 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 | Cockatoos | cockatoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Sydney | case |
| 3 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cockatoos | nmod |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 flip | mark |
| 6 | flip | flip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 learned | xcomp |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bins | amod |
| 8 | wheelie | wheelie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bins | compound |
| 9 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flip | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cockatoo | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cockatoo | det |
| 12 | cockatoo | cockatoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 danced | nsubj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cockatoo | acl |
| 14 | Snowball | Snowball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 15 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 learned | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 danced | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 pop | mark |
| 19 | pop | pop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 time | acl |
| 20 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pop | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pulls | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pulls | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Zealand | case |
| 24 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 25 Zealand | flat |
| 25 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 pulls | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 kea | det |
| 27 | kea | kea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pulls | nsubj |
| 28 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 learned | conj |
| 29 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 strips | compound |
| 30 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 pulls | obj |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 cars | case |
| 32 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 strips | nmod |
| 33 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 find | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 find | mark |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 pulls | advcl |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 find | compound:prt |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 underneath | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 underneath | cop |
| 39 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 35 find | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Cockatoos in Sydney | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | flip | to-infinitive | Cockatoos in Sydney not said here | open wheelie bins | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a cockatoo not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dance | past | a cockatoo | time | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pop | to-infinitive | a cockatoo not said here | music | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Patient | ||||
| 6 | pull | present | the kea | rubber strips | New Zealand | off cars | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent strip=Theme off car=Initial_Location | ||
| 7 | find out | to-infinitive | the kea not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | present | underneath property | 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:4.
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 ×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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