--- title: Real sailors did bring parrots home from tropical voyages, but catch… — Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives · tree and pragmatics description: Real sailors did bring parrots home from tropical voyages, but catching wild parrots for pets is now restricted to protect them. Who acts: Real sailors, catching. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 10 Real sailors did bring parrots home from tropical voyages, but catching wild parrots for pets is now restricted to protect them. **Who acts:** Real sailors, catching · **What happens:** bring, catch, restrict, protect · **To what, where:** parrots, tropical voyages, wild parrots 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 (Real sailors, catching), 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:10 # text = Real sailors did bring parrots home from tropical voyages, but catching wild parrots for pets is now restricted to protect them. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 voyages voyage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 12 catching catch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 csubj:pass _ _ 13 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 now now ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 restricted restrict VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past · do-support | Real sailors | parrots | | tropical voyages | | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent parrot=Theme from voyage=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **catch** | gerund | | wild parrots | | | | for pets | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent parrot=Theme for pet=Beneficiary | | 3 | **restrict** | present · passive | catching | | | | now | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **protect** | to-infinitive | catching *not said here* | Parrots *= parrot* | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | 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:10`. **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, 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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