--- title: A girl in Australia's parents bought a parrot without knowing it cou… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Australia's parents bought a parrot without knowing it could live for decades and scream for hours when bored; within a year they had to find it a new home. Who acts: girl, parrot, Reptiles. 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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 (girl, parrot, Reptiles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:7 # text = A girl in Australia's parents bought a parrot without knowing it could live for decades and scream for hours when bored; within a year they had to find it a new home. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 7 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 without without SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 decades decade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 scream scream VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 22 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 within within ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | past | a girl in Australia's parents | a parrot | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parrot=Theme | | 2 | **know** | gerund | a girl in Australia's parents *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **live** | could | parrot | | | | decade | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **scream** *speech: express* | infinitive | parrot *not said here* | | | | hour | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | past | Reptiles *= reptile* | | | | year | | tree rules | | 6 | **find** | to-infinitive | Reptiles *= reptile* *not said here* | parrot | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme home=Attribute | 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:everyday:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:7`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/6/) - next →: [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/)