--- title: Scarlet macaws fly in pairs that stay together for many years, nest… — The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and… · tree and pragmatics description: Scarlet macaws fly in pairs that stay together for many years, nest in tree holes and eat clay from riverbanks, which scientists think gives them scarce salt. Who acts: Scarlet macaws, pairs, riverbanks. A sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/15/) [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 rainforest from the top: emergent…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/) / 15 # The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy, sentence 15 Scarlet macaws fly in pairs that stay together for many years, nest in tree holes and eat clay from riverbanks, which scientists think gives them scarce salt. **Who acts:** Scarlet macaws, pairs, riverbanks · **What happens:** fly, stay together, nest, eat, think, give · **To what, where:** pairs, tree holes, clay, riverbanks, scarce salt, scientists · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» 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 (Scarlet macaws, pairs, riverbanks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.lesson:15 # text = Scarlet macaws fly in pairs that stay together for many years, nest in tree holes and eat clay from riverbanks, which scientists think gives them scarce salt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Scarlet scarlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 macaws macaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 together together ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 nest nest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 riverbanks riverbank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:parataxis 26 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 scarce scarce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 . . 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 | **fly** | present | Scarlet macaws | | | pairs | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pair=Location | | 2 | **stay together** | present | pairs | | | | year | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **nest** | present | Scarlet macaws *not said here* | | | tree holes | | | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **eat** | present | Scarlet macaws *not said here* | clay | | riverbanks | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clay=Patient | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | riverbanks | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **give** | present | | scarce salt | scientists *= scientist* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient salt=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.lesson:15`. **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): 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 rainforest from the top: emergent…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/14/) - next →: [The rainforest from the top: emergent…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/)