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title: There are about 400 kinds of parrot, most of them in warm places, wi… — Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African… · tree and pragmatics
description: There are about 400 kinds of parrot, most of them in warm places, with the most kinds in Australia and South America. Who acts: 400 kinds. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 0

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There are about 400 kinds of parrot, most of them in warm places, with the most kinds in Australia and South America.

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**Who acts:** 400 kinds · **What happens:** be about

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea» 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 (400 kinds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea.lesson:0
# text = There are about 400 kinds of parrot, most of them in warm places, with the most kinds in Australia and South America.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
19	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be about** | present | 400 kinds of parrot |  |  | there |  | with the most kinds in Australia and South America | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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