--- title: Ravens have been filmed sliding down snowy roofs again and again, ap… — Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and par… · tree and pragmatics description: Ravens have been filmed sliding down snowy roofs again and again, apparently for fun, and they can save a tool to use later. Who acts: Ravens. 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 t --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 15 Ravens have been filmed sliding down snowy roofs again and again, apparently for fun, and they can save a tool to use later. **Who acts:** Ravens · **What happens:** film, slide down, save, use · **To what, where:** Ravens, snowy roofs, tool 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 (Ravens), 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:15 # text = Ravens have been filmed sliding down snowy roofs again and again, apparently for fun, and they can save a tool to use later. # 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 1 Ravens raven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 aux _ _ 4 filmed film VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 sliding slide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 down down ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 snowy snowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 again again ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 again again ADV RB _ 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 apparently apparently ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 tool tool NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl _ _ 25 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **film** | present · perfect · passive | | Ravens | | | | apparently *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **slide down** | gerund | | snowy roofs | | | again | for fun; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Agent | | 3 | **save** | can | Ravens *= raven* | a tool | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Theme | | 4 | **use** | to-infinitive | Ravens *= raven* *not said here* | a tool *not said here* | | | | late *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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:15`. **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 ×2. **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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