--- title: A real parrot copies words the way a wild parrot copies its flock, a… — Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies,… · tree and pragmatics description: A real parrot copies words the way a wild parrot copies its flock, and it climbs its cage using its beak as a third foot. Who acts: real parrot, wild parrot, parrot. A sentence of the lesson «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» of the biology course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/) / 2 # Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 2 A real parrot copies words the way a wild parrot copies its flock, and it climbs its cage using its beak as a third foot. **Who acts:** real parrot, wild parrot, parrot · **What happens:** copy, climb, use · **To what, where:** words, flock, cage, beak This is a sentence of the lesson «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» 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 (real parrot, wild parrot, parrot), 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:2 # text = A real parrot copies words the way a wild parrot copies its flock, and it climbs its cage using its beak as a third foot. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj 4 copies copy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 9 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod 10 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 copies copy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 advcl _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 26 amod _ _ 26 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | a real parrot | words | | | | the way *obl:unmarked* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 2 | **copy** | present | a wild parrot | parrot's flock | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme | | 3 | **climb** | present | parrot | parrot's cage | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cage=Theme | | 4 | **use** | gerund | parrot *not said here* | parrot's beak | | | | as a third foot | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent beak=Duration as foot=Attribute | 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:2`. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/1/) - next →: [Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/)