Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 10

A hippo's skin makes an oily red-orange liquid, sometimes called blood sweat though it is neither blood nor sweat, which works like sunscreen.

Who acts: skin, oily red orange liquid · What happens: make, call, be, work · To what, where: oily red orange liquid, blood sweat, blood · 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 (skin, oily red orange liquid), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hippo	det
2	hippo	hippo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 hippo	case
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 liquid	det
7	oily	oily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 liquid	amod
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 liquid	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 liquid	punct
10	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 liquid	amod
11	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 called	punct
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 called	advmod
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 liquid	acl
15	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sweat	compound
16	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 called	xcomp
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 blood	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 blood	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 blood	cop
20	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 blood	cc:preconj
21	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 called	advcl
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 sweat	cc
23	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blood	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 works	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 works	nsubj
26	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 liquid	acl:relcl
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 sunscreen	case
28	sunscreen	sunscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 works	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	a hippo's skin	a oily red orange liquid		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset liquid=Product
2	call	participle	a oily red orange liquid not said here	blood sweat	sometimes property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	skin	blood nor sweat		tree rules
4	work	present	a oily red orange liquid		like sunscreen	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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, 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:10.

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 ×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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