--- title: Carrion crows in Sendai, Japan, were filmed putting nuts on the road… — The city as a habitat · tree and pragmatics description: Carrion crows in Sendai, Japan, were filmed putting nuts on the road for cars to crack and picking up the pieces at the red light; crows can recognise human faces for years. Who acts: crows. A sentence of the lesson «The city as a habitat» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/14/) [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/) / [The city as a habitat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/) / 14 # The city as a habitat, sentence 14 Carrion crows in Sendai, Japan, were filmed putting nuts on the road for cars to crack and picking up the pieces at the red light; crows can recognise human faces for years. **Who acts:** crows · **What happens:** film, put, crack, pick up, recognise · **To what, where:** Carrion crows, nuts, road, pieces, red light, human faces This is a sentence of the lesson «The city as a habitat» 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 (crows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:014-the-city-as-a-habitat.lesson:14 # text = Carrion crows in Sendai, Japan, were filmed putting nuts on the road for cars to crack and picking up the pieces at the red light; crows can recognise human faces for years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 014-the-city-as-a-habitat.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Carrion carrion NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Sendai Sendai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 filmed film VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 putting put VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp 11 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 crack crack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 20 picking pick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 conj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 recognise recognise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 32 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **film** | past · passive | | Carrion crows in Sendai | | | | | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **put** | gerund | | nuts | | the road | | for cars | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme on road=Destination | | 3 | **crack** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pick up** | gerund | | the pieces | | the red light | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic | | 5 | **recognise** | can | crows | human faces | | | year | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | 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:014-the-city-as-a-habitat.lesson:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The city as a habitat, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/12/) - next →: [The city as a habitat, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/)