--- title: The kea is a clever, curious mountain parrot from New Zealand, famou… — Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos,… · tree and pragmatics description: The kea is a clever, curious mountain parrot from New Zealand, famous for pulling apart cars, bags and tents, and its warbling call seems to set other keas playing. Who acts: kea, warbling call. 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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 (kea, warbling call), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.lesson:11 # text = The kea is a clever, curious mountain parrot from New Zealand, famous for pulling apart cars, bags and tents, and its warbling call seems to set other keas playing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kea kea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 5 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 8 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 pulling pull VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 17 apart apart ADV RB _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod 18 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 tents tent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 warbling warbling NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 keas kea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | the kea | a clever curious mountain parrot | | New Zealand | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pull apart** | gerund | the kea *not said here* | cars and bags and tents | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme | | 3 | **seem** | present | kea's warbling call | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **set** | to-infinitive | kea's warbling call *not said here* | other keas | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **play** | gerund | kea's warbling call *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **call** | | kea | | | | | | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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. 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