Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 8

Macaws are the biggest parrots; the hyacinth macaw is about a metre long from beak to tail and its beak cracks palm nuts so hard people need a hammer; macaws live in the forests of Central and South America.

Who acts: Macaws, hyacinth macaw, beak, hard people · What happens: be, crack, need, live · To what, where: biggest parrots, beak, palm nuts, hammer, forests

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 (Macaws, hyacinth macaw, beak, hard 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	Macaws	macaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 parrots	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 parrots	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parrots	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 parrots	amod
5	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	nsubj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 metre	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 macaw	det
8	hyacinth	hyacinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 macaw	compound
9	macaw	macaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 metre	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 metre	cop
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 metre	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 metre	det
13	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 parrots	conj
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 metre	amod
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 beak	case
16	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 metre	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 tail	case
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beak	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 metre	cc
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 beak	nmod:poss
21	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cracks	nsubj
22	cracks	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 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	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 people	amod
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 need	nsubj
28	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 cracks	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hammer	det
30	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 need	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 macaws	punct
32	macaws	macaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 live	conj
33	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 parrots	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 forests	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 forests	det
36	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 live	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Central	case
38	Central	Central	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 forests	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Central	cc
40	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 America	compound
41	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Central	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Macaws	the biggest parrots and a metre			tree rules
2	is	present	the hyacinth macaw		beak to tail	about a metre	tree rules
3	crack	present	parrot's beak	palm nuts			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme
4	need	present	hard people	a hammer			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hammer=Theme
5	live	present	Macaws not said here		the forests of Central and South America		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=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:8.

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): no change. 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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