--- title: Oxpeckers eat ticks and flies off buffaloes and rhinos and hiss when… — Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole… · tree and pragmatics description: Oxpeckers eat ticks and flies off buffaloes and rhinos and hiss when danger comes, but they also peck at wounds to drink blood, so they are partly helpers and partly pests. Who acts: Oxpeckers, danger. 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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 (Oxpeckers, danger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:14 # text = Oxpeckers eat ticks and flies off buffaloes and rhinos and hiss when danger comes, but they also peck at wounds to drink blood, so they are partly helpers and partly pests. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.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): R1-cc-next ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Oxpeckers oxpecker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 ticks tick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 off off ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 buffaloes buffalo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 9 rhinos rhino NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 11 hiss hiss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 also also ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 peck peck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 wounds wound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nmod 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 24 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 partly partly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 helpers helper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc 32 partly partly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 pests pest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 34 . . 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 | **eat** | present | Oxpeckers | ticks and flies off buffaloes and rhinos | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient | | 2 | **hiss** | present | Oxpeckers *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | present | danger | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **peck** | present | Oxpeckers *= oxpecker* | | | | | at wounds | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at wound=Patient | | 5 | **drink** | to-infinitive | Oxpeckers *= oxpecker* *not said here* | blood | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | Oxpeckers *= oxpecker* | helpers and pests | | | | partly *property* | tree rules | 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:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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