Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics, sentence 1

That is why many poisonous animals are dressed in red, yellow, orange or black, nature's danger signs, like the yellow and black tape round a hole in the road.

Who acts: nature · What happens: be, sign · To what, where: That, red danger signs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics» 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 (nature), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 dressed	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dressed	cop
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 dressed	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dressed	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dressed	aux:pass
8	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	21 signs	case
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 signs	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 yellow	punct
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 red	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 orange	punct
14	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 yellow	conj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 black	cc
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 yellow	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 signs	punct
18	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 signs	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 nature	case
20	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 signs	compound
21	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dressed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tape	punct
23	like	like	ADP	_	28 tape	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tape	det
25	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tape	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 black	cc
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 yellow	conj
28	tape	tape	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 signs	nmod
29	round	round	ADV	_	31 hole	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hole	det
31	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tape	nmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 road	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 road	det
34	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hole	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · passive		That		nature's red danger signs like the yellow tape a hole in the road		dress property	tree rules
2	sign		nature					like the yellow tape a hole in the road	nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=agent like=obl

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:247-defences-poison-warning-colours-and-mimics.lesson:1.

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, R6-punct-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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