--- title: A toucan picks fruit with the tip of its beak and flicks it back int… — The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucan… · tree and pragmatics description: A toucan picks fruit with the tip of its beak and flicks it back into its throat; the beak is a light honeycomb of bone covered in keratin, the stuff of our nails, and also lets out body heat. Who acts: toucan, beak. 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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 (toucan, beak), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:7 # text = A toucan picks fruit with the tip of its beak and flicks it back into its throat; the beak is a light honeycomb of bone covered in keratin, the stuff of our nails, and also lets out body heat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 156-the-amazon-canopy.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 toucan toucan NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 flicks flick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 honeycomb honeycomb NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 keratin keratin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 also also ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 40 out out ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 . . 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 | **pick** | present | a toucan | fruit | | | | with the tip of tip's beak | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | | 2 | **flick** | present | a toucan *not said here* | fruit | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | the beak | a light honeycomb | | | | of bone | tree rules | | 4 | **cover** | participle | | bone *not said here* | | | | in keratin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in keratin=Theme | | 5 | **let out** | present | a toucan *not said here* | body heat | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | 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. 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