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A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots/10/) [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/) / [Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, ja…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots/) / 10 # Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 10 Alex, a grey parrot studied by Irene Pepperberg, learned over 100 words and could name colours, shapes and numbers up to six. **Who acts:** Alex · **What happens:** study, learn, name · **To what, where:** grey parrot, 100 words, colours This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots» 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 (Alex), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots.lesson:10 # text = Alex, a grey parrot studied by Irene Pepperberg, learned over 100 words and could name colours, shapes and numbers up to six. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots.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 1 Alex Alex PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 6 studied study VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Irene Irene PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl:agent _ _ 9 Pepperberg Pepperberg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 11 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 over over ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 name name VERB VB Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 18 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 23 up up ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 26 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **study** | participle | | a grey parrot *not said here* | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **learn** | past | Alex | 100 words | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 3 | **name** | could | Alex *not said here* | colours and shapes and numbers | | | | to six | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent colour=Theme to six=Attribute | 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:233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots.lesson:10`. **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): R5-strong ×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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