--- title: The biggest are the macaws of Central and South American forests; a… — Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African… · tree and pragmatics description: The biggest are the macaws of Central and South American forests; a hyacinth macaw is about a metre long and cracks palm nuts so hard that people need a hammer. Who acts: biggest, hyacinth macaw, people. 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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 (biggest, hyacinth macaw, people), 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:2 # text = The biggest are the macaws of Central and South American forests; a hyacinth macaw is about a metre long and cracks palm nuts so hard that people need a hammer. # 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 ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 2 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 macaws macaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 7 Central Central ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 11 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 hyacinth hyacinth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 macaw macaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 20 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 cracks crack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 hammer hammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | the biggest | the macaws and a metre | | | | of Central American forests | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | a hyacinth macaw | a metre | | | | about, long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **crack** | present | a hyacinth macaw *not said here* | palm nuts | | | | hard *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme | | 4 | **need** | present | people | a hammer | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hammer=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:2`. **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 ×3. **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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