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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 depen --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 4 Scientists test bird minds with puzzles: a tube of water with a treat floating too low, a wire to bend, a box with several locks. **Who acts:** Scientists, treat · **What happens:** test, float, bend · **To what, where:** bird minds 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 (Scientists, treat), 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:4 # text = Scientists test bird minds with puzzles: a tube of water with a treat floating too low, a wire to bend, a box with several locks. # 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 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 test test VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 minds mind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 treat treat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 15 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 too too ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 bend bend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **test** | present | Scientists | bird minds | | | | with puzzles a tube of water with a treat and a wire and a box with several locks | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme | | 2 | **float** | gerund | a treat *not said here* | | | | | low *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bend** | to-infinitive | Scientists *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «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:4`. **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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