--- title: Wild parrots copy the calls of their flock; a pet parrot treats its… — Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and par… · tree and pragmatics description: Wild parrots copy the calls of their flock; a pet parrot treats its people as its flock, so it copies their words, polite or rude. Who acts: Wild parrots, pet parrot, parrot, calls. 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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 (Wild parrots, pet parrot, parrot, calls), 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:11 # text = Wild parrots copy the calls of their flock; a pet parrot treats its people as its flock, so it copies their words, polite or rude. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 copy copy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 11 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound 12 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound 13 treats treat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 copies copy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:appos 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **copy** | present | Wild parrots | the calls of calls's flock | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | | 2 | **treat** | present | a pet parrot | parrot's people | | | | as parrot's flock | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent people=Theme as flock=Attribute | | 3 | **copy** | present | parrot | calls's words | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 4 | **call** | | | calls's flock | | | | | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **word** | | calls *= call* | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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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