--- title: The kea is a curious mountain parrot from New Zealand that solves pr… — Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives · tree and pragmatics description: The kea is a curious mountain parrot from New Zealand that solves problems, steals food and sometimes pulls rubber off cars. Who acts: kea, curious mountain parrot. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 14 The kea is a curious mountain parrot from New Zealand that solves problems, steals food and sometimes pulls rubber off cars. **Who acts:** kea, curious mountain parrot · **What happens:** be, solve, steal, pull · **To what, where:** curious mountain parrot, New Zealand, problems, food, rubber, cars 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 (kea, curious mountain parrot), 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:14 # text = The kea is a curious mountain parrot from New Zealand that solves problems, steals food and sometimes pulls rubber off cars. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kea kea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 10 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 solves solve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 13 problems problem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 steals steal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 19 advmod _ _ 19 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 20 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 off off ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is a** | present | the kea | a curious mountain parrot | | New Zealand | | | tree rules | | 2 | **solve** | present | a curious mountain parrot | problems | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic | | 3 | **steal** | present | a curious mountain parrot *not said here* | food | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme | | 4 | **pull** | present | a curious mountain parrot *not said here* | rubber | | cars | | sometimes *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent rubber=Theme off car=Initial\_Location | 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:14`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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