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title: Parrots have two toes pointing forward and two back on each foot, so… — Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African… · tree and pragmatics
description: Parrots have two toes pointing forward and two back on each foot, so they can grip branches and hold food like a hand; many parrots prefer their left foot, studies report. Who acts: Parrots, two toes, toes, many parrots. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African grey
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# Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 16

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Parrots have two toes pointing forward and two back on each foot, so they can grip branches and hold food like a hand; many parrots prefer their left foot, studies report.

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**Who acts:** Parrots, two toes, toes, many parrots, studies · **What happens:** have, point, grip, hold, prefer, report · **To what, where:** two toes, branches, food, left foot

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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 (Parrots, two toes, toes, many parrots), 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:16
# text = Parrots have two toes pointing forward and two back on each foot, so they can grip branches and hold food like a hand; many parrots prefer their left foot, studies report.
# 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	Parrots	parrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	grip	grip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
18	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	parrots	parrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	prefer	prefer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	report	report	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Parrots | two toes and each two foot |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient |
| 2 | **point** | gerund | two toes and each two foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grip** | can | toes *= toe* | branches |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Experiencer |
| 4 | **hold** | infinitive | toes *= toe* *not said here* | food |  |  |  | like a hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 5 | **prefer** | present | many parrots | toes's left foot |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus |
| 6 | **report** | present | studies |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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.

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