The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 17

Parrots and toucans have two toes pointing forward and two pointing back, while most perching birds have three forward and one back.

Who acts: Parrots, two toes, two, most perching birds · What happens: have, point, point back, perch · To what, where: two toes, three

This is a sentence of the lesson «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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 (Parrots, two toes, two, most perching birds), 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	Parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 toucans	cc
3	toucans	toucan	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Parrots	conj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 toes	nummod
6	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 toes	acl
8	forward	forward	ADV	_	7 pointing	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pointing	cc
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pointing	nsubj
11	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 toes	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 pointing	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 birds	amod
16	perching	perch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 birds	amod
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	advcl
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 have	obj
20	forward	forward	ADV	_	18 have	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 back	cc
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 back	obl:unmarked
23	back	back	ADV	_	18 have	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Parrots and toucans	two toes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient
2	point	gerund	two toes not said here		forward property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	point back	gerund	two			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	perch	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	present	most perching birds	three	forward property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient

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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.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.

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