Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 6

It uses its beak like a third foot and holds its food in one foot like a hand.

Who acts: parrot · What happens: use, hold · To what, where: beak, food, one foot

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 (parrot), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 beak	nmod:poss
4	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 foot	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 foot	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 foot	amod
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 holds	cc
10	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 uses	conj
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 food	nmod:poss
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holds	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 foot	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 foot	nummod
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holds	obl
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 hand	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hand	det
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holds	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 uses	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	parrot	parrot's beak				like a third foot	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient
2	hold	present	parrot not said here	parrot's food		one foot		like a hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in foot=Location

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:6.

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. 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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