--- title: Many parrots copy words and sounds such as phones and doorbells, the… — Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies,… · tree and pragmatics description: Many parrots copy words and sounds such as phones and doorbells, the way wild parrots copy their flock's calls; an African grey called Alex learned to name over 50 objects, colours and shapes. Who acts: Many parrots, wild parrots, African grey, flock. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many parrots, wild parrots, African grey, flock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.lesson:11 # text = Many parrots copy words and sounds such as phones and doorbells, the way wild parrots copy their flock's calls; an African grey called Alex learned to name over 50 objects, colours and shapes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.lesson # annotation = 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 ×3 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 copy copy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 9 case _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 doorbells doorbell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 15 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 copy copy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 grey grey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 26 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 Alex Alex PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj 28 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 name name VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 over over ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod 32 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 objects object NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **copy** | present | Many parrots | words and sounds | | | | such phones and doorbells | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 2 | **copy** | present | wild parrots | the way | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | | 3 | **call** | participle | | a African grey *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **learn** | past | a African grey *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **name** | to-infinitive | a African grey *not said here* | 50 objects and colours and shapes | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Theme | | 6 | **call** | | horses's flock | | | | | | nom call «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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/10/) - next →: [Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/)