--- title: New Caledonian crows make hooks from twigs to pull grubs out of hole… — Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and par… · tree and pragmatics description: New Caledonian crows make hooks from twigs to pull grubs out of holes, and a crow called Betty once bent a straight wire into a hook. Who acts: New Caledonian crows, crow. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 6 New Caledonian crows make hooks from twigs to pull grubs out of holes, and a crow called Betty once bent a straight wire into a hook. **Who acts:** New Caledonian crows, crow · **What happens:** make, pull, call, bend · **To what, where:** hooks, twigs, grubs, holes, crow, straight wire · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (New Caledonian crows, crow), 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:6 # text = New Caledonian crows make hooks from twigs to pull grubs out of holes, and a crow called Betty once bent a straight wire into a hook. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 New new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 Caledonian caledonian NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 hooks hook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 twigs twig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 10 grubs grub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 out out ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 Betty betty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 21 advmod _ _ 21 bent bend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 . . 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 | **make** | present | New Caledonian crows | hooks | | twigs | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent hook=Product from twig=Material | | 2 | **pull** | to-infinitive | New Caledonian crows *not said here* | grubs | | holes | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent grub=Theme out hole=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **call** | participle | | a crow *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bend** | past | a crow | a straight wire | | a hook | | once *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent wire=Material into hook=Product | 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:6`. **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): R8-pos-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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