Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 5

Under its fur a zebra's skin is black, so scientists say zebras are black with white stripes, and every zebra's pattern is unique.

Who acts: scientists, zebras, pattern, zebra · What happens: be, say, pattern · To what, where: 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 (scientists, zebras, pattern, zebra), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 fur	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 fur	nmod:poss
3	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 black	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 zebra	det
5	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skin	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 zebra	case
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fur	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 black	cop
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 say	advmod
12	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 black	conj
14	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 black	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 black	cop
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 say	ccomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 stripes	case
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stripes	amod
19	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 black	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 unique	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 unique	cc
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 zebra	det
23	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pattern	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 zebra	case
25	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 unique	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 unique	cop
27	unique	unique	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 black	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 black	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present		side's fur a zebra's skin	black property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	scientists			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	zebras		with white stripes; black property	tree rules
4	is	present	every zebra's pattern		unique property	tree rules
5	pattern		every zebra			nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:5.

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.

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