--- title: New Caledonian crows bend wire into hooks and solve puzzles in sever… — Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how… · tree and pragmatics description: New Caledonian crows bend wire into hooks and solve puzzles in several steps, and scientists film the tests so others can see it is real; crows can also recognise and remember people's faces. Who acts: New crows, scientists, others, crow. 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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 (New crows, scientists, others, crow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:9 # text = New Caledonian crows bend wire into hooks and solve puzzles in several steps, and scientists film the tests so others can see it is real; crows can also recognise and remember people's faces. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.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 ×3 1 New New PROPN NNP _ 3 compound _ _ 2 Caledonian Caledonian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bend bend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 hooks hook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 9 solve solve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 16 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 film film VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 so so SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 ccomp _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 also also ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 recognise recognise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=31:cc 33 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 37 . . 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 | **bend** | present | New crows | wire | | hooks | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent wire=Material into hook=Product | | 2 | **solve** | present | New crows *not said here* | puzzles | | | | in several steps | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic | | 3 | **film** | present | scientists | the tests | | | | | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Theme | | 4 | **see** | can | others | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | crow | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **recognise** | can | crows | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **remember** | infinitive | crows *not said here* | people's faces | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent face=Theme | 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:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:9`. **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 ×3. **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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