--- title: African grey parrots are famous copiers of sounds; wild ones copy th… — The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis… · tree and pragmatics description: African grey parrots are famous copiers of sounds; wild ones copy their flock's calls, and pet ones copy words and household noises. Who acts: African grey parrots, famous copiers, pet ones, 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 (African grey parrots, famous copiers, pet ones, flock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest.lesson:12 # text = African grey parrots are famous copiers of sounds; wild ones copy their flock's calls, and pet ones copy words and household noises. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 159-the-congo-rainforest.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 grey grey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 copiers copier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 12 copy copy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 copy copy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 22 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 household household NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 noises noise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | African grey parrots | famous copiers | | | | of sounds | tree rules | | 2 | **copy** | present | famous copiers | copiers's flock's calls | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | | 3 | **copy** | present | pet ones | words and household noises | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 4 | **call** | | copiers'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:159-the-congo-rainforest.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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: [The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobo…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/11/) - next →: [The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobo…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/)