Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 7
Sadly, more than a quarter of parrot kinds are threatened, mainly by forest loss and by people catching them as pets.
Who acts: forest loss, people · What happens: threaten, catch · To what, where: quarter, beak
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 (forest loss, 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 | Sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 11 threatened | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sadly | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 quarter | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 quarter | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 quarter | det |
| 6 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threatened | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 kinds | case |
| 8 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kinds | compound |
| 9 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 quarter | nmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 threatened | aux:pass |
| 11 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mainly | punct |
| 13 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 11 threatened | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 loss | case |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loss | compound |
| 16 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threatened | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 catching | cc |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 20 catching | mark |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 catching | nsubj |
| 20 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 loss | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 catching | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 pets | case |
| 23 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 catching | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 threatened | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | present · passive | forest loss | a quarter of parrot kinds | mainly, sadly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | catch | gerund | people | beak | as pets | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:7.
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): 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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