--- title: Parrots are some of the cleverest birds on Earth, and they live in g… — Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives · tree and pragmatics description: Parrots are some of the cleverest birds on Earth, and they live in groups where every bird must learn the sounds of its flock. Who acts: Parrots, bird. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives/0/) [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/) / [Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives/) / 0 # Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 0 Parrots are some of the cleverest birds on Earth, and they live in groups where every bird must learn the sounds of its flock. **Who acts:** Parrots, bird · **What happens:** live, learn · **To what, where:** groups, sounds This is a sentence of the lesson «Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives» 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 (Parrots, bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives.lesson:0 # text = Parrots are some of the cleverest birds on Earth, and they live in groups where every bird must learn the sounds of its flock. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 cleverest clever ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj 16 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 20 advmod _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl:relcl 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Parrots *= parrot* | | | groups | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location | | 2 | **learn** | must | every bird | the sounds of its flock | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic | 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:206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/15/) - next →: [Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives/)