--- title: Parrots and toucans have two toes pointing forward and two pointing… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics description: Parrots and toucans have two toes pointing forward and two pointing back, while most perching birds have three forward and one back. Who acts: Parrots, two toes, two, most perching birds. A sentence of the lesson «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» of the biology course of Mova's primary s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/93-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house/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/) / [The aviary: the walk-through tropical…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/93-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house/) / 17 # The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 17 Parrots and toucans have two toes pointing forward and two pointing back, while most perching birds have three forward and one back. **Who acts:** Parrots, two toes, two, most perching birds · **What happens:** have, point, point back, perch · **To what, where:** two toes, three This is a sentence of the lesson «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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 (Parrots, two toes, two, most perching birds), 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:17 # text = Parrots and toucans have two toes pointing forward and two pointing back, while most perching birds have three forward and one back. # 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 1 Parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 toucans toucan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 pointing point VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 forward forward ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nummod 11 pointing point VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 12 back back ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 16 perching perch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 amod _ _ 17 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 obj _ _ 20 forward forward ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 back back ADV RB _ 18 conj _ _ 24 . . 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 | **have** | present | Parrots and toucans | two toes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient | | 2 | **point** | gerund | two toes *not said here* | | | | | forward *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **point back** | gerund | two | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **perch** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | present | most perching birds | three | | | | forward *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=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: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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