--- title: The kea is a big green mountain parrot of New Zealand, one of the ve… — Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African… · tree and pragmatics description: The kea is a big green mountain parrot of New Zealand, one of the very few parrots that live among snowy mountains; its curiosity helps it find food in a harsh place. Who acts: kea, few parrots, curiosity. 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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 (kea, few parrots, curiosity), 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:14 # text = The kea is a big green mountain parrot of New Zealand, one of the very few parrots that live among snowy mountains; its curiosity helps it find food in a harsh place. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kea kea NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 11 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod 14 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 very very ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 among among ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 snowy snowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 curiosity curiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 harsh harsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the kea | a big mountain parrot | | | | of New Zealand | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | the few parrots | | | snowy mountains | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among mountain=Location | | 3 | **help** | present | kea's curiosity | kea | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **find** | infinitive | kea *not said here* | food | | a harsh place | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | 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. 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