The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps, sentence 3

Their black and white suits are camouflage: from below a white belly matches the bright sky, and from above a black back matches the dark sea.

Who acts: black suits · What happens: be, match · To what, where: camouflage, bright sky, white belly, dark sea, black back

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 (black suits), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 suits	nmod:poss
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 suits	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 white	cc
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 black	conj
5	suits	suit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 camouflage	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 camouflage	cop
7	camouflage	camouflage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 camouflage	punct
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 belly	case
10	below	below	ADV	_	13 belly	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 belly	det
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 belly	amod
13	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 matches	obl
14	matches	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 camouflage	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sky	det
16	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sky	amod
17	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 matches	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 matches	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 matches	cc
20	from	from	ADP	_	24 back	case
21	above	above	ADP	_	24 back	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 back	det
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 back	amod
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 matches	obl
25	matches	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 matches	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
27	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sea	amod
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 matches	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 camouflage	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	penguins's black suits	camouflage		tree rules
2	match	present		the bright sky	a white belly	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Patient
3	match	present		the dark sea	a black back	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=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:3.

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. 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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