--- title: A toucan throws food up and catches it in its beak tip, and the beak… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics description: A toucan throws food up and catches it in its beak tip, and the beak also lets out heat like a radiator to help the bird cool down. Who acts: toucan, beak, bird. 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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 (toucan, beak, bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:16 # text = A toucan throws food up and catches it in its beak tip, and the beak also lets out heat like a radiator to help the bird cool down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 toucan toucan NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 also also ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 out out ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 radiator radiator NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 cool cool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 29 down down ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw up** | present | a toucan | food | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 2 | **catch** | present | a toucan *not said here* | food | | toucan's beak tip | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **let out** | present | the beak | heat | | | | like a radiator | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | | 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | the beak *not said here* | the bird | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent bird=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **cool down** | infinitive | the bird *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:16`. **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, R8-pos-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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