--- title: Big parrots can live 50 years or more, need lots of company and can… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show · tree and pragmatics description: Big parrots can live 50 years or more, need lots of company and can scream loudly, so many pet parrots end up in rescue centres. Who acts: Big parrots, many pet parrots. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 8 Big parrots can live 50 years or more, need lots of company and can scream loudly, so many pet parrots end up in rescue centres. **Who acts:** Big parrots, many pet parrots · **What happens:** live, need, scream, end up · **To what, where:** lots, rescue centres 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 (Big parrots, many pet 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:8 # text = Big parrots can live 50 years or more, need lots of company and can scream loudly, so many pet parrots end up in rescue centres. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 11 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 scream scream VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 17 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 end end VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 rescue rescue NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 centres centre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | can | Big parrots | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **need** | present | Big parrots *not said here* | lots of company | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme | | 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | can | Big parrots *not said here* | | | | | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **end up** | present | many pet parrots | | | | | in rescue centres *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in centre=Result | 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:8`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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