The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth, sentence 10

Polar bear skin is black and its fur is made of see-through hollow hairs that look white because they scatter light.

Who acts: bear skin, see through hollow hairs, bears · What happens: be, make, see, look, scatter · To what, where: fur, light

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth» 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 (bear skin, see through hollow hairs, bears), 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	Polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bear	amod
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skin	compound
3	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 black	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 black	cop
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fur	nmod:poss
8	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux:pass
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 black	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	16 hairs	case
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hairs	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
14	through	through	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hairs	amod
15	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hairs	amod
16	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 look	nsubj
18	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hairs	acl:relcl
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 look	xcomp
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 scatter	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 scatter	nsubj
22	scatter	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 white	advcl
23	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 scatter	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 black	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	bear skin		black property	tree rules
2	make	present · passive		skin's fur	of see through hollow hairs	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	see	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	look	present	see through hollow hairs		white property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	scatter	present	bears = bear	light		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme

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:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.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. 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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