Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 17
Crows and parrots pack many nerve cells into small brains, so they are cleverer than their brain size suggests.
Who acts: Crows, cells, brain size · What happens: pack, be, suggest · To what, where: many nerve cells, small brains
This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 (Crows, cells, brain size), 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 | Crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pack | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 parrots | cc |
| 3 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Crows | conj |
| 4 | pack | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cells | amod |
| 6 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cells | compound |
| 7 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pack | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 brains | case |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brains | amod |
| 10 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pack | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cleverer | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 cleverer | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cleverer | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cleverer | cop |
| 15 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 pack | parataxis |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 suggests | mark |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 size | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 size | compound |
| 19 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 suggests | nsubj |
| 20 | suggests | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cleverer | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pack | 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 | pack | present | Crows and parrots | many nerve cells | small brains | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cell=Theme into brain=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | present | cells = cell | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | suggest speech: suggest | present | cells's brain size | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:17.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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