Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 11
A flamingo feeds with its head upside down in the water, filtering tiny food through comb-like edges of its bill.
Who acts: flamingo, ankle · What happens: feed, filter, bill · To what, where: water, tiny food, like edges
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 (flamingo, ankle), 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 flamingo | det |
| 2 | flamingo | flamingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feeds | nsubj |
| 3 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 upside | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 upside | compound |
| 7 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feeds | obl |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 upside | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feeds | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 filtering | punct |
| 13 | filtering | filter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 feeds | advcl |
| 14 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 food | amod |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filtering | obj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 edges | case |
| 17 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 like | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 comb | punct |
| 19 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 edges | amod |
| 20 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 filtering | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bill | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bill | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 edges | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feeds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present | a flamingo | the water | with head upside | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | |||
| 2 | filter | gerund | a flamingo not said here | tiny food | like edges of ankle's bill | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent food=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | bill | ankle | nom bill «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:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.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 ×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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