--- title: Lorikeets have brush-tipped tongues for licking nectar and pollen fr… — Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African… · tree and pragmatics description: Lorikeets have brush-tipped tongues for licking nectar and pollen from flowers, and they are noisy visitors to gardens in eastern Australia. Who acts: Lorikeets, tipped tongues. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea» of the bio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea/) / 13 # Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 13 Lorikeets have brush-tipped tongues for licking nectar and pollen from flowers, and they are noisy visitors to gardens in eastern Australia. **Who acts:** Lorikeets, tipped tongues · **What happens:** have, tip, lick, be · **To what, where:** tipped tongues, nectar, flowers, noisy visitors 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 (Lorikeets, tipped tongues), 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:13 # text = Lorikeets have brush-tipped tongues for licking nectar and pollen from flowers, and they are noisy visitors to gardens in eastern Australia. # 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): no change 1 Lorikeets lorikeet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 brush brush NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 tipped tip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 amod _ _ 6 tongues tongue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 for for SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 licking lick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 9 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **have** | present | Lorikeets | tipped tongues | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient | | 2 | **tip** | participle | | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lick** | gerund | tipped tongues *not said here* | nectar and pollen | | flowers | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme from flower=Source | | 4 | **is a** | present | Lorikeets *= lorikeet* | noisy visitors | | | | to gardens in eastern Australia | 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:303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoo…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea/12/) - next →: [Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoo…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea/)