--- title: In experiments, rooks and crows dropped stones into a tube of water… — Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and par… · tree and pragmatics description: In experiments, rooks and crows dropped stones into a tube of water to raise a floating treat, like the crow in Aesop's fable, and chose stones that sink. Who acts: rooks, stones. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rooks, stones), 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:7 # text = In experiments, rooks and crows dropped stones into a tube of water to raise a floating treat, like the crow in Aesop's fable, and chose stones that sink. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 experiments experiment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 rooks rook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 raise raise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 treat treat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 Aesop Aesop PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 fable fable NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 30 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 sink sink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | past | rooks and crows | stones | | experiments | | into a tube of water | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in experiment=Destination into tube=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **raise** | to-infinitive | rooks and crows *not said here* | a floating treat | | | | like the crow in Aesop's fable | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treat=Theme | | 3 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **choose** | past | rooks and crows *not said here* | stones | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | | 5 | **sink** | present | stones | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:7`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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