Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis, sentence 11
The kea is a clever, curious mountain parrot from New Zealand, famous for pulling apart cars, bags and tents, and its warbling call seems to set other keas playing.
Who acts: kea, warbling call · What happens: be, pull apart, seem, set, play, call · To what, where: clever curious mountain parrot, New Zealand, cars, other keas · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» 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 (kea, warbling call), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kea | det |
| 2 | kea | kea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 parrot | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 parrot | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 parrot | det |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 parrot | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 7 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 parrot | amod |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 parrot | compound |
| 9 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Zealand | case |
| 11 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Zealand | compound |
| 12 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 parrot | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 famous | punct |
| 14 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 parrot | amod |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 pulling | mark |
| 16 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 famous | advcl |
| 17 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 16 pulling | compound:prt |
| 18 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pulling | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bags | punct |
| 20 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cars | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tents | cc |
| 22 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cars | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 seems | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 seems | cc |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 call | nmod:poss |
| 26 | warbling | warbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 call | compound |
| 27 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seems | nsubj |
| 28 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 famous | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 set | mark |
| 30 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 seems | xcomp |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 keas | amod |
| 32 | keas | kea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 set | obj |
| 33 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 set | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 parrot | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the kea | a clever curious mountain parrot | New Zealand | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pull apart | gerund | the kea not said here | cars and bags and tents | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | present | kea's warbling call | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | set | to-infinitive | kea's warbling call not said here | other keas | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | play | gerund | kea's warbling call not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | call | kea | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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:079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.lesson:11.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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