--- title: Crows and parrots pack many nerve cells into small brains, so they a… — Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bee… · tree and pragmatics description: Crows and parrots pack many nerve cells into small brains, so they are cleverer than their brain size suggests. Who acts: Crows, cells, brain size. A sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Surprising brains: tool-using fish, co…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/) / 17 # Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 17 Crows and parrots pack many nerve cells into small brains, so they are cleverer than their brain size suggests. **Who acts:** Crows, cells, brain size · **What happens:** pack, be, suggest · **To what, where:** many nerve cells, small brains This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 (Crows, cells, brain size), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:17 # text = Crows and parrots pack many nerve cells into small brains, so they are cleverer than their brain size suggests. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.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 ×1 1 Crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 pack pack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 cleverer clever ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 16 than than SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 suggests suggest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 21 . . 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 | **pack** | present | Crows and parrots | many nerve cells | | small brains | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cell=Theme into brain=Destination | | 2 | **is** | present | cells *= cell* | | | | | clever *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | cells's brain size | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:17`. **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 ×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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