Masters of camouflage, sentence 12

Tigers' stripes break up their outline in tall grass and shadows, deer cannot see orange well, and no two tigers have the same stripes.

Who acts: stripes, deer, two tigers · What happens: break up, not see, have · To what, where: outline, tall grass, orange, same stripes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» 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 (stripes, deer, two tigers), 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	Tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stripes	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Tigers	case
3	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 break	nsubj
4	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 break	compound:prt
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 outline	nmod:poss
7	outline	outline	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 break	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 grass	case
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grass	amod
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 break	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shadows	cc
12	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grass	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
14	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 see	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 see	advmod
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 break	parataxis
18	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 see	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 tigers	det
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 tigers	nummod
24	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 break	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stripes	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stripes	amod
28	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 break	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break up	present	Tigers's stripes	stripes's outline	tall grass and shadows		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outline=Patient
2	not see	can	deer	orange		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer orange=Stimulus
3	have	present	no two tigers	the same stripes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=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:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:12.

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, R8-pos-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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