Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 0

Animal colours come in two kinds: pigments, which are coloured stuff in the body like paint, and structures, tiny shapes that bend and scatter light like a soap bubble.

Who acts: Animal colours, tiny shapes · What happens: come in, colour, bend, scatter · To what, where: two kinds, pigments, light

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» 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 (Animal colours, tiny shapes), 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	Animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colours	compound
2	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 kinds	nummod
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 pigments	punct
8	pigments	pigment	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kinds	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 coloured	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 coloured	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 coloured	aux:pass
12	coloured	colour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 pigments	acl:relcl
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coloured	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 body	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 body	det
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stuff	nmod
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 paint	case
18	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 body	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 structures	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 structures	cc
21	structures	structure	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pigments	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shapes	punct
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shapes	amod
24	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 structures	conj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 bend	nsubj
26	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 shapes	acl:relcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 scatter	cc
28	scatter	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 bend	conj
29	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 scatter	obj
30	like	like	ADP	_	33 bubble	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bubble	det
32	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bubble	compound
33	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 scatter	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come in	present	Animal colours	two kinds		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	colour	present · passive		pigments and structures and tiny shapes		tree rules
3	bend	present	tiny shapes			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	scatter	present	tiny shapes not said here	light	like a soap bubble	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=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:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers.lesson:0.

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 ×4, 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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