Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 0

A parrot says «hello» because in the wild it copies the calls of its flock to belong, and in a zoo or a home the people become its flock.

Who acts: parrot, people · What happens: say, copy, belong, become, call · To what, where: calls, wild, flock, zoo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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 (parrot, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 parrot	det
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 hello	punct
5	hello	hello	INTJ	_	3 says	ccomp
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 hello	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 copies	mark
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wild	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wild	det
10	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 copies	obl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 copies	nsubj
12	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 calls	det
14	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 copies	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 flock	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 flock	nmod:poss
17	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 calls	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 belong	mark
19	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 flock	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 become	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 become	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 zoo	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 zoo	det
24	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 become	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 home	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 home	det
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 zoo	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 become	nsubj
30	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	advcl
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 flock	nmod:poss
32	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 become	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a parrot				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	copy	present	parrot	the calls of parrot's flock	the wild		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent call=Theme in wild=Destination
3	belong	to-infinitive	parrot not said here				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	become	infinitive	the people	parrot's flock		in a zoo or a home result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in zoo=Result
5	call			parrot's flock			nom call «communication transitive»: of=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:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:0.

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): R6-punct-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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