--- title: A parrot's hooked beak is a nutcracker, a spoon and a third foot all… — Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives · tree and pragmatics description: A parrot's hooked beak is a nutcracker, a spoon and a third foot all at once, and a big parrot can live sixty years or more, so a parrot may outlive the person who bought it. Who acts: hooked beak, big parrot, parrot, person. 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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 (hooked beak, big parrot, parrot, person), 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:3 # text = A parrot's hooked beak is a nutcracker, a spoon and a third foot all at once, and a big parrot can live sixty years or more, so a parrot may outlive the person who bought it. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 hooked hook VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 nutcracker nutcracker NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 spoon spoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 15 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 appos _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 26 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 outlive outlive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hook** | participle | | | | | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | a parrot's hooked beak | a nutcracker and a spoon and a third foot | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | can | a big parrot | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **outlive** | may | a parrot | the person | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **buy** | past | the person | person | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:3`. **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, 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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