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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 (Keas, study, puzzles, kea), 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:15 # text = Keas can solve puzzles with several steps and work as a team; a study reported they can judge chances; the kea is endangered, with only a few thousand left. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Keas kea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 solve solve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 judge judge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 20 chances chance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 kea kea NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 endangered endangered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 with with SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nsubj _ _ 32 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **solve** | can | Keas | puzzles | | | | with several steps | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic | | 2 | **work** | infinitive | Keas *not said here* | | | | | as a team | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as team=Attribute | | 3 | **report** | past | a study | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **judge** | can | puzzles *= puzzle* | chances | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent chance=Value | | 5 | **is** | present | the kea | | | | | endangered *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **leave** | past | a few thousand | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:15`. **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, 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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