--- title: A cockatoo called Snowball became famous for moving in time to music… — Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African… · tree and pragmatics description: A cockatoo called Snowball became famous for moving in time to music; keeping a beat is rare in animals, and a study reported he invented more than a dozen dance moves. Who acts: cockatoo, keeping, study. 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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 (cockatoo, keeping, study), 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:11 # text = A cockatoo called Snowball became famous for moving in time to music; keeping a beat is rare in animals, and a study reported he invented more than a dozen dance moves. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cockatoo cockatoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 Snowball Snowball PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 5 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 for for SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 12 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 invented invent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 28 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 31 advmod _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 dozen dozen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 32 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 moves move NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | a cockatoo *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **become** | past | a cockatoo | | | | | famous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **move** | gerund | a cockatoo *not said here* | | | music | time | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to music=Trajectory | | 4 | **keep** | gerund | | a beat | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | keeping | | | | | in animals; rare *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **report** | past | a study | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **invent** | past | study | dozen dance moves | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Result | 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:303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea.lesson:11`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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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