--- title: Watch a crow at a car park: it may drop a hard nut where cars drive… — Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and par… · tree and pragmatics description: Watch a crow at a car park: it may drop a hard nut where cars drive over it, wait, and then hop out to eat the cracked nut. Who acts: you, crow, cars. 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 tr --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 2 Watch a crow at a car park: it may drop a hard nut where cars drive over it, wait, and then hop out to eat the cracked nut. **Who acts:** you, crow, cars · **What happens:** watch, drop, drive, wait, hop out, eat · **To what, where:** crow, car park, hard nut, cracked nut 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 (you, crow, cars), 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:2 # text = Watch a crow at a car park: it may drop a hard nut where cars drive over it, wait, and then hop out to eat the cracked nut. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 drop drop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 16 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 drive drive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 hop hop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 26 out out ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:xcomp 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 cracked crack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | a crow | | a car park | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Theme | | 2 | **drop** | may | crow | a hard nut | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | | 3 | **drive** | present | cars | | | | | over crow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Trajectory | | 4 | **wait** | infinitive | crow *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hop out** | infinitive | crow *not said here* | | | | then | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive | crow *not said here* | the cracked nut | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient | | 7 | **crack** | participle | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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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