--- title: A parrot that is bored, lonely or stressed may pull out its own feat… — Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives · tree and pragmatics description: A parrot that is bored, lonely or stressed may pull out its own feathers; parrots need company, toys and puzzles every day. Who acts: parrot, parrots. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives, sentence 9 A parrot that is bored, lonely or stressed may pull out its own feathers; parrots need company, toys and puzzles every day. **Who acts:** parrot, parrots · **What happens:** be, stress, pull out, need · **To what, where:** own feathers, company 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 (parrot, parrots), 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:9 # text = A parrot that is bored, lonely or stressed may pull out its own feathers; parrots need company, toys and puzzles every day. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 stressed stress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 19 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:appos 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a parrot | | | | | bored *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a parrot *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stress** | participle | a parrot *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **pull out** | may | a parrot | beak's own feathers | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **need** | present | parrots | company and toys and puzzles | | | day | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot company=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:9`. **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 ×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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