Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal, sentence 14

Flamingos get their pink colour from pink chemicals in the tiny algae and shrimps they eat, so zoo flamingos are given special food to stay pink.

Who acts: Flamingos · What happens: get, eat, give, stay · To what, where: pink colour, pink chemicals, tiny algae, zoo flamingos

This is a sentence of the lesson «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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 (Flamingos), 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	Flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 colour	nmod:poss
4	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 colour	amod
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 chemicals	case
7	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chemicals	amod
8	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 algae	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 algae	det
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 algae	amod
12	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 chemicals	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shrimps	cc
14	shrimps	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 algae	conj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eat	nsubj
16	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 algae	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 given	punct
18	so	so	CCONJ	_	22 given	cc
19	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flamingos	compound
20	flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 given	nsubj:pass
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 given	aux:pass
22	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 get	parataxis
23	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 food	amod
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 given	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 stay	mark
26	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 given	advcl
27	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stay	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present	Flamingos	flamingos's pink colour	pink chemicals in the tiny algae and shrimps		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent colour=Theme from chemical=Source
2	eat	present	flamingos = flamingo	the tiny algae and shrimps not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Patient
3	give	present · passive		zoo flamingos			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient food=Theme
4	stay	to-infinitive				pink property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.lesson:14.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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