--- title: Macaws in the Amazon gather in hundreds at riverbank clay licks, bec… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show · tree and pragmatics description: Macaws in the Amazon gather in hundreds at riverbank clay licks, because the clay gives them salt that is hard to find in the rainforest. Who acts: Macaws, clay, salt. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show/7/) [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/) / [Parrots, flamingos and the bird of pre…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show/) / 7 # Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 7 Macaws in the Amazon gather in hundreds at riverbank clay licks, because the clay gives them salt that is hard to find in the rainforest. **Who acts:** Macaws, clay, salt · **What happens:** gather, give, be, find · **To what, where:** hundreds, salt, licks, rainforest This is a sentence of the lesson «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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 (Macaws, clay, salt), 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:7 # text = Macaws in the Amazon gather in hundreds at riverbank clay licks, because the clay gives them salt that is hard to find in the rainforest. # 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): no change 1 Macaws macaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Amazon amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 gather gather VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 riverbank riverbank NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 licks lick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 rainforest rainforest NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **gather** | present | Macaws in the Amazon | | | hundreds | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **give** | present | the clay | salt | licks *= lick* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient salt=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | salt | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | salt *not said here* | | | the rainforest | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | 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. 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