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title: Think of a parrot climbing its cage: beak, foot, beak, foot. — Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African… · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of a parrot climbing its cage: beak, foot, beak, foot. Who acts: you, parrot. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea, sentence 5

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Think of a parrot climbing its cage: beak, foot, beak, foot.

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**Who acts:** you, parrot · **What happens:** think, climb · **To what, where:** cage

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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 (you, parrot), 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:5
# text = Think of a parrot climbing its cage: beak, foot, beak, foot.
# 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	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a parrot | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **climb** | gerund | a parrot *not said here* | parrot's cage |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cage=Theme |

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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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**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:5`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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