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title: Cockatoos raise their crest feathers when excited or alarmed; in Syd… — Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cockatoos raise their crest feathers when excited or alarmed; in Sydney, cockatoos learned to flip open wheelie bins and the trick spread from suburb to suburb. Who acts: Cockatoos, trick. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea»
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# Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 10

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Cockatoos raise their crest feathers when excited or alarmed; in Sydney, cockatoos learned to flip open wheelie bins and the trick spread from suburb to suburb.

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**Who acts:** Cockatoos, trick · **What happens:** raise, alarm, learn, flip, spread · **To what, where:** crest feathers, Sydney, open wheelie bins, suburb

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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 (Cockatoos, trick), 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:10
# text = Cockatoos raise their crest feathers when excited or alarmed; in Sydney, cockatoos learned to flip open wheelie bins and the trick spread from suburb to suburb.
# 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	Cockatoos	cockatoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raise	raise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
7	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	cockatoos	cockatoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	flip	flip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	wheelie	wheelie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	suburb	suburb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	suburb	suburb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | present | Cockatoos | Cockatoos's crest feathers |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme |
| 2 | **alarm** | participle | Cockatoos *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **learn** | past | cockatoos |  |  | Sydney |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **flip** | to-infinitive | cockatoos *not said here* | open wheelie bins |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Theme |
| 5 | **spread** | past | the trick |  |  | suburb to suburb |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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