Where meat and fish come from, told honestly, sentence 11

Dark meat has more myoglobin, a red protein that stores oxygen in muscles that work for a long time, so a chicken's legs are dark and its breast is pale, while ducks and wild pigeons that fly a lot have dark breast meat.

Who acts: Dark meat, red protein, muscles, legs, breast, ducks · What happens: have, store, work, be, fly · To what, where: more myoglobin, oxygen, muscles, lot, dark breast meat

This is a sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» 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 (Dark meat, red protein, muscles, legs), 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	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 meat	amod
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 myoglobin	amod
5	myoglobin	myoglobin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 protein	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 protein	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 protein	amod
9	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 myoglobin	appos
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 stores	nsubj
11	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 protein	acl:relcl
12	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stores	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 muscles	case
14	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stores	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 work	nsubj
16	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 muscles	acl:relcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 time	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 work	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dark	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	28 dark	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 chicken	det
24	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 legs	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 chicken	case
26	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dark	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 dark	cop
28	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 has	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pale	cc
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 breast	nmod:poss
31	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pale	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 pale	cop
33	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dark	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ducks	punct
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	44 have	mark
36	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 have	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 pigeons	cc
38	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 pigeons	amod
39	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 ducks	conj
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 fly	nsubj
41	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 ducks	acl:relcl
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 lot	det
43	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fly	obj
44	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	advcl
45	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 meat	amod
46	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 meat	compound
47	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 have	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Dark meat	more myoglobin				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myoglobin=Patient
2	store	present	a red protein	oxygen	muscles			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme in muscle=Location
3	work	present	muscles			time		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	a chicken's legs				dark property	tree rules
5	is	present	meat's breast				pale property	tree rules
6	fly	present	ducks and wild pigeons	a lot				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lot=Theme
7	have	present	ducks and wild pigeons	dark breast meat				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson:11.

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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