--- title: Some crows in Japan drop nuts at pedestrian crossings for cars to cr… — Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and par… · tree and pragmatics description: Some crows in Japan drop nuts at pedestrian crossings for cars to crack and pick them up safely when the lights stop the traffic. Who acts: crows, cars, lights. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 5 Some crows in Japan drop nuts at pedestrian crossings for cars to crack and pick them up safely when the lights stop the traffic. **Who acts:** crows, cars, lights · **What happens:** drop, crack, pick up, stop · **To what, where:** nuts, pedestrian crossings, cars, traffic 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 (crows, cars, lights), 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:5 # text = Some crows in Japan drop nuts at pedestrian crossings for cars to crack and pick them up safely when the lights stop the traffic. # 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): no change 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 pedestrian pedestrian NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 crossings crossing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 for for SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 crack crack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 safely safely ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | present | some crows in Japan | nuts | | pedestrian crossings | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nut=Theme at crossing=Destination | | 2 | **crack** | to-infinitive | cars | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pick up** | infinitive | cars *not said here* | cars *= car* | | | | safely *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 4 | **stop** | present | the lights | the traffic | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality traffic=Eventuality | 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:5`. **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): no change. **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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