--- title: Crows recognise human faces; in Seattle, crows scolded a mask worn b… — Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and par… · tree and pragmatics description: Crows recognise human faces; in Seattle, crows scolded a mask worn by people who had caught some of them for years and taught other crows to do it. Who acts: Crows. 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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 (Crows), 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:8 # text = Crows recognise human faces; in Seattle, crows scolded a mask worn by people who had caught some of them for years and taught other crows to do it. # 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 Crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 recognise recognise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Seattle Seattle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 scolded scold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mask mask NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:agent _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recognise** | present | Crows | human faces | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | | 2 | **scold** | past | crows | a mask | | Seattle | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mask=Theme | | 3 | **wear** | participle | | a mask *not said here* | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive | | people | | | year | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary some=Theme | | 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | crows *not said here* | | other crows | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent crow=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | crows *not said here* | crow | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:8`. **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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