--- title: Macaws are the biggest parrots; the hyacinth macaw is about a metre… — Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African… · tree and pragmatics description: Macaws are the biggest parrots; the hyacinth macaw is about a metre long from beak to tail and its beak cracks palm nuts so hard people need a hammer; macaws live in the forests of Central and South America. Who acts: Macaws, hyacinth macaw, beak, hard 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 (Macaws, hyacinth macaw, beak, hard 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:8 # text = Macaws are the biggest parrots; the hyacinth macaw is about a metre long from beak to tail and its beak cracks palm nuts so hard people need a hammer; macaws live in the forests of Central and South America. # 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 Macaws macaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 nsubj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 hyacinth hyacinth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 macaw macaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 14 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 cracks crack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 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 ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 hammer hammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 macaws macaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 33 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Central Central PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 40 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Macaws | the biggest parrots and a metre | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the hyacinth macaw | | | beak to tail | | about a metre | tree rules | | 3 | **crack** | present | parrot's beak | palm nuts | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme | | 4 | **need** | present | hard people | a hammer | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hammer=Theme | | 5 | **live** | present | Macaws *not said here* | | | the forests of Central and South America | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | 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:8`. **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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