--- title: Some birds are brainy: a crow drops walnuts on a road for cars to cr… — Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrot… · tree and pragmatics description: Some birds are brainy: a crow drops walnuts on a road for cars to crack, a jay remembers where it buried thousands of acorns, and an African grey parrot can name colours. Who acts: birds, crow, jay, African grey parrot. 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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 (birds, crow, jay, African grey parrot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:035-birds-of-every-kind.lesson:2 # text = Some birds are brainy: a crow drops walnuts on a road for cars to crack, a jay remembers where it buried thousands of acorns, and an African grey parrot can name colours. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 035-birds-of-every-kind.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 brainy brainy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 9 walnuts walnut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 crack crack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 jay jay NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 buried bury VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:ccomp 24 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 acorns acorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 name name VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 35 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present | some birds | | | | | brainy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **drop** | present | a crow | walnuts | | a road for cars | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent walnut=Theme on road=Destination | | 3 | **crack** | to-infinitive | a crow *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **remember** | present | a jay | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bury** | past | jay | thousands of acorns | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | | 6 | **name** | can | a African grey parrot | colours | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=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:035-birds-of-every-kind.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): R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Birds of every kind: penguins, ostrich…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/1/) - next →: [Birds of every kind: penguins, ostrich…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/)