Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 1

Flamingos look as if they are doing everything wrong: they stand on one leg, eat with their heads upside down and are only pink because of what they eat, yet each habit has a good reason.

Who acts: Flamingos, habit · What happens: look, do, stand, eat, be, have · To what, where: everything, one leg, heads, good reason

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 (Flamingos, habit), 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	Flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 doing	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 doing	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 doing	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	aux
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 look	advcl
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 doing	obj
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 everything	amod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 stand	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stand	nsubj
12	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 look	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 leg	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 leg	nummod
15	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stand	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eat	punct
17	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stand	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 upside	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 heads	nmod:poss
20	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 eat	obl
21	upside	upside	ADV	_	22 down	advmod
22	down	down	ADV	_	17 eat	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pink	cc
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 pink	cop
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 pink	advmod
26	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	conj
27	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	29 what	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 because	fixed
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 pink	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 eat	nsubj
31	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 what	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 has	punct
33	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	36 has	cc
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	35 habit	det
35	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 has	nsubj
36	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 eat	parataxis
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 reason	det
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 reason	amod
39	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 has	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	present	Flamingos				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	present · progressive	Flamingos = flamingo	everything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
3	stand	present	Flamingos = flamingo		one leg		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
4	eat	present	Flamingos = flamingo not said here	Flamingos's heads		down property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	Flamingos not said here			pink property	tree rules
6	eat	present	Flamingos = flamingo				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	have	present	each habit	a good reason			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=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:1.

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 ×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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