--- title: Head-bobbing usually means a budgie is excited or showing off, and i… — Budgies and canaries · tree and pragmatics description: Head-bobbing usually means a budgie is excited or showing off, and it can also be a sign that it wants food. Who acts: Head bobbing, budgie, bobbing. A sentence of the lesson «Budgies and canaries» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/9/) [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/) / [Budgies and canaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/) / 9 # Budgies and canaries, sentence 9 Head-bobbing usually means a budgie is excited or showing off, and it can also be a sign that it wants food. **Who acts:** Head bobbing, budgie, bobbing · **What happens:** mean, be, show off, want · **To what, where:** sign, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Budgies and canaries» 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 (Head bobbing, budgie, bobbing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries.lesson:9 # text = Head-bobbing usually means a budgie is excited or showing off, and it can also be a sign that it wants food. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 205-budgies-and-canaries.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 bobbing bobbing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:compound 4 usually usually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 budgie budgie NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 excited excited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 17 also also ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **mean** | present | Head bobbing | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | a budgie | | | | | excited *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **show off** | gerund | a budgie *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | can | bobbing | a sign | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **want** | present | bobbing | food | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=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:205-budgies-and-canaries.lesson:9`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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: [Budgies and canaries, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/8/) - next →: [Budgies and canaries, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/)