Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 5

Parrots copy sounds, including words, to fit in with their flock; an African grey parrot called Alex learned to name colours, shapes and numbers up to six.

Who acts: Parrots, African grey parrot · What happens: copy, fit in, call, learn, name · To what, where: sounds, African grey parrot, colours · 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 (Parrots, African grey parrot), 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	2 copy	nsubj
2	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 copy	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 words	punct
5	including	including	ADP	_	6 words	case
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sounds	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fit	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fit	mark
9	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 copy	advcl
10	in	in	PART	_	9 fit	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 flock	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 flock	nmod:poss
13	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fit	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 parrot	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 parrot	det
16	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 parrot	amod
17	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 parrot	amod
18	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 learned	nsubj
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 parrot	acl
20	Alex	Alex	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 called	xcomp
21	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 copy	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 name	mark
23	name	name	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 learned	xcomp
24	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 name	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shapes	punct
26	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 colours	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 numbers	cc
28	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 colours	conj
29	up	up	ADV	_	31 six	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 six	case
31	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 numbers	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 copy	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	copy	present	Parrots	sounds	including words	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
2	fit in	to-infinitive	Parrots not said here		with words's flock	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	call	participle		a African grey parrot not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	learn	past	a African grey parrot			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	name	to-infinitive	a African grey parrot not said here	colours and shapes and numbers to six		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme

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:5.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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