--- title: Parrots use their strong curved beaks to crack nuts and as a third f… — Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies,… · tree and pragmatics description: Parrots use their strong curved beaks to crack nuts and as a third foot for climbing, and they hold food in one foot, many being left-footed or right-footed. Who acts: Parrots, horses. 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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 (Parrots, horses), 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:12 # text = Parrots use their strong curved beaks to crack nuts and as a third foot for climbing, and they hold food in one foot, many being left-footed or right-footed. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 curved curve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 crack crack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 9 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 amod _ _ 14 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 climbing climbing NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 nsubj _ _ 27 being be AUX VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 30 footed foot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 parataxis _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 footed foot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Parrots | horses's strong curved beaks | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient | | 2 | **curve** | participle | | | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 3 | **crack** | to-infinitive | Parrots *not said here* | nuts and a third foot for climbing | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme | | 4 | **hold** | present | horses *= horse* | food | | one foot | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in foot=Location | | 5 | **foot** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:12`. **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): R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/11/) - next →: [Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/)