--- title: Parrots climb with their beak as a third foot, and their feet have t… — Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives · tree and pragmatics description: Parrots climb with their beak as a third foot, and their feet have two toes pointing forward and two back, so they can grip branches and hold food like a hand. Who acts: Parrots, feet, two toes. 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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 (Parrots, feet, two toes), 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:7 # text = Parrots climb with their beak as a third foot, and their feet have two toes pointing forward and two back, so they can grip branches and hold food like a hand. # 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): no change 1 Parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 pointing point VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 forward forward ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 conj _ _ 21 back back ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 grip grip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 27 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 30 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | present | Parrots | | | | | with Parrots's beak; as a third foot | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | Parrots's feet | two toes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient | | 3 | **point** | gerund | two toes *not said here* | | | | | forward *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grip** | can | Parrots *= parrot* | branches | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Experiencer | | 5 | **hold** | infinitive | Parrots *= parrot* *not said here* | food | | | | like a hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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:7`. **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): no change. **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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