--- title: Macaws have strong hooked beaks that crack nuts too hard for people… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show · tree and pragmatics description: Macaws have strong hooked beaks that crack nuts too hard for people to break by hand, and parrots also use the beak like a third foot to climb. Who acts: Macaws, strong hooked beaks, parrots. 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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 (Macaws, strong hooked beaks, parrots), 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:6 # text = Macaws have strong hooked beaks that crack nuts too hard for people to break by hand, and parrots also use the beak like a third foot to climb. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Macaws macaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 hooked hook VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 crack crack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 9 too too ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 11 for for SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 also also ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 27 amod _ _ 27 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:acl 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Macaws | strong hooked beaks | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient | | 2 | **hook** | participle | | | | | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **crack** | present | strong hooked beaks | nuts | | | | hard *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme | | 4 | **break** | to-infinitive | strong hooked beaks *not said here* | | | | | by hand | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hand=Location | | 5 | **use** | present | parrots | the beak | | | | like a third foot | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient | | 6 | **climb** | to-infinitive | parrots *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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:6`. **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, 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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