--- title: Parrots copy sounds, including words, to fit in with their flock; an… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show · tree and pragmatics description: Parrots copy sounds, including words, to fit in with their flock; an African grey parrot called Alex learned to name colours, shapes and numbers up to six. Who acts: Parrots, African grey parrot. 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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 (Parrots, African grey parrot), 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:5 # text = Parrots copy sounds, including words, to fit in with their flock; an African grey parrot called Alex learned to name colours, shapes and numbers up to six. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 copy copy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 including including ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 10 in in PART RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 Alex Alex PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ _ 21 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 name name VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 29 up up ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **copy** | present | Parrots | sounds | | | | including words | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | | 2 | **fit in** | to-infinitive | Parrots *not said here* | | | | | with words's flock | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | participle | | a African grey parrot *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **learn** | past | a African grey parrot | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **name** | to-infinitive | a African grey parrot *not said here* | colours and shapes and numbers to six | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme | 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:5`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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