--- title: A parrot's hooked beak and strong jaw crack hard nuts and seeds, and… — Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives · tree and pragmatics description: A parrot's hooked beak and strong jaw crack hard nuts and seeds, and big macaws open nuts that people need a hammer for. Who acts: hooked beak, big macaws, people. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 6 A parrot's hooked beak and strong jaw crack hard nuts and seeds, and big macaws open nuts that people need a hammer for. **Who acts:** hooked beak, big macaws, people · **What happens:** hook, crack, open, need · **To what, where:** hard nuts, nuts 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 (hooked beak, big macaws, people), 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:6 # text = A parrot's hooked beak and strong jaw crack hard nuts and seeds, and big macaws open nuts that people need a hammer for. # 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): R2-punct-next ×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 9 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 jaw jaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 crack crack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 macaws macaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 open open VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 obj _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 hammer hammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **crack** | present | a parrot's hooked beak and strong jaw | hard nuts and seeds | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme | | 3 | **open** | present | big macaws | nuts | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme | | 4 | **need** | present | people | nuts | | | | | 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:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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