Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 8
Big parrots can live 50 years or more, need lots of company and can scream loudly, so many pet parrots end up in rescue centres.
Who acts: Big parrots, many pet parrots · What happens: live, need, scream, end up · To what, where: lots, rescue centres
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 (Big parrots, many pet 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 parrots | amod |
| 2 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 more | cc |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 years | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 need | punct |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | conj |
| 11 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 need | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 company | case |
| 13 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lots | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 scream | cc |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 scream | aux |
| 16 | scream | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 need | conj |
| 17 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 16 scream | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 end | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 end | advmod |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 parrots | amod |
| 21 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 parrots | compound |
| 22 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 end | nsubj |
| 23 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 scream | advcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 end | compound:prt |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 centres | case |
| 26 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 centres | compound |
| 27 | centres | centre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 end | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | can | Big parrots | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | present | Big parrots not said here | lots of company | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | can | Big parrots not said here | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | end up | present | many pet parrots | in rescue centres result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in centre=Result |
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:8.
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 ×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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