--- title: That is why a pet African grey may say «hello» the moment the phone… — Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives · tree and pragmatics description: That is why a pet African grey may say «hello» the moment the phone rings: it has learned that the ring and the word go together, the way you learn the tune of the school bell. Who acts: That, pet African grey, phone, ring. 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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 (That, pet African grey, phone, ring), 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:1 # text = That is why a pet African grey may say «hello» the moment the phone rings: it has learned that the ring and the word go together, the way you learn the tune of the school bell. # 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 ×1 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 grey grey NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 hello hello INTJ UH _ 9 obj _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 rings ring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 together together ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 advcl _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 tune tune NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 41 . . 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 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | a pet African grey | | | | moment | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic | | 3 | **ring** | present | the phone | the moment *not said here* | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=Theme | | 4 | **learn** | present · perfect | phone | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **go together** | present | the ring and the word | | | | | together *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **learn** | present | you | the tune of the school bell | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=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:1`. **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 ×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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