--- title: Roosters crow at many times of day, not only at dawn, to claim their… — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs · tree and pragmatics description: Roosters crow at many times of day, not only at dawn, to claim their territory, and a study reported that a rooster partly closes its ear canals when crowing so it does not deafen itself. Who acts: Roosters, study, rooster. 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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 (Roosters, study, rooster), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs.lesson:6 # text = Roosters crow at many times of day, not only at dawn, to claim their territory, and a study reported that a rooster partly closes its ear canals when crowing so it does not deafen itself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Roosters rooster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 crow crow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 claim claim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 rooster rooster NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 partly partly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 closes close VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advcl 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 when when SCONJ WRB _ 32 mark _ _ 32 crowing crow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj 33 so so SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 deafen deafen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 38 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 37 obj _ _ 39 . . 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 | **crow** | present | Roosters | | | | dawn; time | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Roosters *not said here* | hens's territory | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent territory=Topic | | 3 | **report** | past | a study | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **close** | present | a rooster | rooster's ear canals | | | | partly *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canal=Patient | | 5 | **crow** | gerund | a rooster *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **deafen** | present · do-support | rooster | rooster | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | 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. 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