--- title: In the Amazon, hundreds of macaws gather at river banks to eat clay,… — Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives · tree and pragmatics description: In the Amazon, hundreds of macaws gather at river banks to eat clay, which may give them salt and help with harsh chemicals in some seeds; scientists still argue which reason matters most. Who acts: hundreds, clay, scientists, reason. 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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 (hundreds, clay, scientists, reason), 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:12 # text = In the Amazon, hundreds of macaws gather at river banks to eat clay, which may give them salt and help with harsh chemicals in some seeds; scientists still argue which reason matters most. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 macaws macaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 gather gather VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl 14 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 harsh harsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nmod 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 still still ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 33 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 34 det _ _ 34 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 36 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **gather** | present | hundreds of macaws | | | the Amazon | | at river banks | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | hundreds of macaws *not said here* | clay | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clay=Patient | | 3 | **give** | may | clay | salt | hundreds *= hundred* | some seeds | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient salt=Theme | | 4 | **help** | infinitive | clay *not said here* | | | | | with harsh chemicals | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with chemical=Theme | | 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | scientists | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **matter** | present | which reason | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:12`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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