--- title: Cockatoos in Sydney learned to flip open wheelie bins, a cockatoo ca… — Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African… · tree and pragmatics description: Cockatoos in Sydney learned to flip open wheelie bins, a cockatoo called Snowball danced in time to pop music, and in New Zealand the kea pulls rubber strips off cars just to find out what is underneath. Who acts: Cockatoos, cockatoo, kea. 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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 (Cockatoos, cockatoo, 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:4 # text = Cockatoos in Sydney learned to flip open wheelie bins, a cockatoo called Snowball danced in time to pop music, and in New Zealand the kea pulls rubber strips off cars just to find out what is underneath. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cockatoos cockatoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 flip flip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 wheelie wheelie NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 bins bin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cockatoo cockatoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 Snowball Snowball PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 pop pop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ _ 20 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 New New PROPN NNP _ 25 flat _ _ 25 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 kea kea NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 strips strip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 off off ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 just just ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 36 out out ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 39 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 underneath underneath ADV RB _ 35 ccomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | past | Cockatoos in Sydney | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **flip** | to-infinitive | Cockatoos in Sydney *not said here* | open wheelie bins | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Theme | | 3 | **call** | participle | | a cockatoo *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **dance** | past | a cockatoo | | | | time | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pop** | to-infinitive | a cockatoo *not said here* | music | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Patient | | 6 | **pull** | present | the kea | rubber strips | | New Zealand | | off cars | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent strip=Theme off car=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **find out** | to-infinitive | the kea *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | present | | | | | | underneath *property* | 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:4`. **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 ×2, 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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