Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 6

Macaws have strong hooked beaks that crack nuts too hard for people to break by hand, and parrots also use the beak like a third foot to climb.

Who acts: Macaws, strong hooked beaks, parrots · What happens: have, hook, crack, break, use, climb · To what, where: strong hooked beaks, nuts, beak

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 (Macaws, strong hooked beaks, parrots), 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	Macaws	macaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beaks	amod
4	hooked	hook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 beaks	amod
5	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 crack	nsubj
7	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 beaks	acl:relcl
8	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crack	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 hard	advmod
10	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 crack	advmod
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 break	mark
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hard	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 break	mark
14	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 people	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 hand	case
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 break	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 use	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 use	cc
19	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 use	nsubj
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 use	advmod
21	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 beak	det
23	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 use	obj
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 foot	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 foot	det
26	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 foot	amod
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beak	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 climb	mark
29	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 use	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Macaws	strong hooked beaks		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient
2	hook	participle				vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
3	crack	present	strong hooked beaks	nuts	hard property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme
4	break	to-infinitive	strong hooked beaks not said here		by hand	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hand=Location
5	use	present	parrots	the beak	like a third foot	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient
6	climb	to-infinitive	parrots not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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:6.

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, 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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