The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy, sentence 13

The blue morpho's blue is not paint: tiny ridges on its wing scales bounce back only blue light, so the colour would vanish if the scales were ground to powder.

Who acts: blue, tiny ridges, colour · What happens: not be, bounce back, vanish, be, powder · To what, where: paint, blue light, scales

This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» 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 (blue, tiny ridges, colour), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morpho	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morpho	amod
3	morpho	morpho	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blue	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 morpho	case
5	blue	blue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paint	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 paint	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 paint	advmod
8	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 paint	punct
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ridges	amod
11	ridges	ridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bounce	nsubj
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 scales	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 scales	nmod:poss
14	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scales	compound
15	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ridges	nmod
16	bounce	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 paint	parataxis
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 bounce	advmod
18	only	only	ADV	_	20 light	advmod
19	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 light	amod
20	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bounce	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 vanish	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	26 vanish	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 colour	det
24	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 vanish	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 vanish	aux
26	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bounce	parataxis
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 ground	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 scales	det
29	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 ground	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ground	cop
31	ground	grind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 vanish	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 powder	case
33	powder	powder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 ground	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 paint	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	the blue morpho's blue	paint		tree rules
2	bounce back	present	tiny ridges on blue's wing scales	blue light		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Agent
3	vanish	would	the colour			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the scales	grind property	tree rules
5	powder	infinitive				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.lesson:13.

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 ×2, 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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