--- title: Keas, mountain parrots of New Zealand, are very curious puzzle solve… — Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and par… · tree and pragmatics description: Keas, mountain parrots of New Zealand, are very curious puzzle solvers, because food is scarce high in the mountains and exploring everything pays off, and are known for pulling rubber off parked cars. Who acts: Keas, food. 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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 (Keas, food), 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:13 # text = Keas, mountain parrots of New Zealand, are very curious puzzle solvers, because food is scarce high in the mountains and exploring everything pays off, and are known for pulling rubber off parked cars. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Keas kea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 7 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 puzzle puzzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 solvers solver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 scarce scarce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 exploring explore VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 nsubj _ _ 25 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 24 obj _ _ 26 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 off off ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 32 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 33 pulling pull VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:obl 34 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 off off ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 parked park VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 37 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31: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 a** | present | Keas | curious puzzle solvers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | food | | | the mountains | | high *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **explore** | gerund | | everything | | | | | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent everything=Location | | 4 | **pay off** | present | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **know** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» | | 6 | **pull** | gerund | | rubber | | parked cars | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent rubber=Theme off car=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **park** | participle | | | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots.lesson:13`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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