--- title: Flamingos look as if they are doing everything wrong: they stand on… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show · tree and pragmatics description: Flamingos look as if they are doing everything wrong: they stand on one leg, eat with their heads upside down and are only pink because of what they eat, yet each habit has a good reason. Who acts: Flamingos, habit. 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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 (Flamingos, habit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:1 # text = Flamingos look as if they are doing everything wrong: they stand on one leg, eat with their heads upside down and are only pink because of what they eat, yet each habit has a good reason. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.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 ×2 1 Flamingos flamingo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 8 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 obj _ _ 9 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound 21 upside upside ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 down down ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 27 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 29 case _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 27 fixed _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 obl _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 35 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | Flamingos | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **do** | present · progressive | Flamingos *= flamingo* | everything | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | | 3 | **stand** | present | Flamingos *= flamingo* | | | one leg | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | | 4 | **eat** | present | Flamingos *= flamingo* *not said here* | Flamingos's heads | | | | down *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | Flamingos *not said here* | | | | | pink *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** | present | Flamingos *= flamingo* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **have** | present | each habit | a good reason | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=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:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×2. **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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