--- title: Many parrots bond strongly with one person and may bite strangers wh… — Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives · tree and pragmatics description: Many parrots bond strongly with one person and may bite strangers when nervous or jealous; pinned eyes (the dark centres shrinking to tiny dots), raised feathers and an open beak are warnings. Who acts: Many parrots, dark centres, pinned eyes. 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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 (Many parrots, dark centres, pinned eyes), 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:15 # text = Many parrots bond strongly with one person and may bite strangers when nervous or jealous; pinned eyes (the dark centres shrinking to tiny dots), raised feathers and an open beak are warnings. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bond bond VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 strongly strongly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 13 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 advcl _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 jealous jealous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 pinned pin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 centres centre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 23 shrinking shrink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 dots dot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 29 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=30:conj 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 warnings warning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 37 . . 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 | **bond** | present | Many parrots | | | | | with one person; strongly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with person=Co-Patient | | 2 | **bite** | may | Many parrots *not said here* | strangers | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Patient | | 3 | **pin** | participle | | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **shrink** | gerund | the dark centres *not said here* | | | | | to tiny dots *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to dot=Result | | 5 | **raise** | participle | | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | pinned eyes and raised feathers and a open beak | warnings | | | | | tree rules | 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:15`. **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, 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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