Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 1

Marty asks whether he is white with black stripes or black with white stripes, and science has an answer: under the fur a zebra's skin is black, so it is black with white stripes.

Who acts: Marty, science, skin · What happens: ask, be, have · To what, where: answer, fur · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» 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 (Marty, science, skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marty	Marty	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 white	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 white	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 white	cop
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 asks	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 stripes	case
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stripes	amod
9	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 white	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 stripes	cc
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stripes	amod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 stripes	case
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stripes	amod
14	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stripes	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 has	cc
17	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	nsubj
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	conj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 answer	det
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	obj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 black	punct
22	under	under	ADP	_	24 fur	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fur	det
24	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 black	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 zebra	det
26	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 skin	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 zebra	case
28	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 black	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 black	cop
30	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 asks	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 black	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	35 black	advmod
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 black	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 black	cop
35	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 black	parataxis
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 stripes	case
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 stripes	amod
38	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 black	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Marty				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Marty			with black stripes or black white stripes; white property	tree rules
3	have	present	science	a answer			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient
4	is	present	a zebra's skin		the fur	black property	tree rules
5	is	present	skin			with white stripes; black property	tree rules

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, 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:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.lesson:1.

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 ×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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