Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 7

Macaws in the Amazon gather in hundreds at riverbank clay licks, because the clay gives them salt that is hard to find in the rainforest.

Who acts: Macaws, clay, salt · What happens: gather, give, be, find · To what, where: hundreds, salt, licks, rainforest

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, clay, salt), 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	5 gather	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 Amazon	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Amazon	det
4	Amazon	amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Macaws	nmod
5	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 hundreds	case
7	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gather	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 licks	case
9	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 licks	compound
10	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 licks	compound
11	licks	lick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hundreds	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gather	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 gives	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 clay	det
15	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gives	nsubj
16	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gather	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gives	iobj
18	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gives	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 hard	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hard	cop
21	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 salt	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hard	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 rainforest	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rainforest	det
26	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gather	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	present	Macaws in the Amazon			hundreds		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	present	the clay	salt	licks = lick			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient salt=Theme
3	is	present	salt				hard property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive	salt not said here			the rainforest		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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:7.

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): no change. 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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