The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps, sentence 10
A penguin's black back and white belly are camouflage called countershading, which many fish and sharks have too.
Who acts: belly, camouflage, many fish · What happens: be, call, have · To what, where: camouflage, countershading · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» 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 (belly, camouflage, many fish), 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 penguin | det |
| 2 | penguin | penguin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 belly | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 penguin | case |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 back | amod |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 belly | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 belly | cc |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 belly | conj |
| 8 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 camouflage | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 camouflage | cop |
| 10 | camouflage | camouflage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 camouflage | acl |
| 12 | countershading | countershading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 have | obj |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fish | amod |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 have | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sharks | cc |
| 18 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fish | conj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 countershading | acl:relcl |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 have | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 camouflage | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a penguin's belly and black back | camouflage | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | camouflage not said here | countershading | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | present | many fish and sharks | countershading | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
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:129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps.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): no change. 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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