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title: Male lyrebirds are famous mimics that copy the calls of many birds a… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics
description: Male lyrebirds are famous mimics that copy the calls of many birds and sometimes human sounds such as camera shutters, car alarms and chainsaws. Who acts: Male lyrebirds, famous mimics. A sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppin
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# Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 7

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Male lyrebirds are famous mimics that copy the calls of many birds and sometimes human sounds such as camera shutters, car alarms and chainsaws.

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**Who acts:** Male lyrebirds, famous mimics · **What happens:** be, copy, call · **To what, where:** famous mimics, calls, many birds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» 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 (Male lyrebirds, famous mimics), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.lesson:7
# text = Male lyrebirds are famous mimics that copy the calls of many birds and sometimes human sounds such as camera shutters, car alarms and chainsaws.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.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	Male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lyrebirds	lyrebird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mimics	mimic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	copy	copy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
15	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	shutters	shutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	alarms	alarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	chainsaws	chainsaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Male lyrebirds | famous mimics |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **copy** | present | famous mimics | the calls of many birds and human sounds such camera shutters and car alarms and chainsaws |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme |
| 3 | **call** |  |  | many birds and human sounds such camera shutters and car alarms and chainsaws |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.lesson:7`.

**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. **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.

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