--- title: Some parrots move in time to a beat, and a cockatoo called Snowball… — Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives · tree and pragmatics description: Some parrots move in time to a beat, and a cockatoo called Snowball became famous for dancing; keeping to a beat is rare in animals. Who acts: parrots, cockatoo, keeping. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 16 Some parrots move in time to a beat, and a cockatoo called Snowball became famous for dancing; keeping to a beat is rare in animals. **Who acts:** parrots, cockatoo, keeping · **What happens:** move, call, become, dance, keep, be · **To what, where:** beat, cockatoo · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (parrots, cockatoo, keeping), 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:16 # text = Some parrots move in time to a beat, and a cockatoo called Snowball became famous for dancing; keeping to a beat is rare in animals. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cockatoo cockatoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 Snowball Snowball PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 16 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 18 dancing dance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 csubj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present | some parrots | | | a beat | time | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to beat=Trajectory | | 2 | **call** | participle | | a cockatoo *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **become** | past | a cockatoo | | | | | famous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **dance** | gerund | | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **keep** | gerund | | | | | | to a beat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | keeping | | | | | in animals; rare *property* | 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:16`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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