Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 10

Most lobsters are dark greenish brown, and a blue one is often said to be about 1 in 2 million; all lobsters turn red when cooked because heat frees the red pigment.

Who acts: Most lobsters, lobsters, heat · What happens: be, say, turn, cook, free · To what, where: blue one, 1, 2 million, red pigment · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Most lobsters, lobsters, heat), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 lobsters	amod
2	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 brown	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 brown	cop
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brown	amod
5	greenish	greenish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brown	amod
6	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brown	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	aux:pass
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
14	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 brown	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	18 1	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 1	cop
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 1	advmod
18	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 said	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 million	case
20	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 million	compound
21	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 1	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 brown	punct
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 lobsters	det
24	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 turn	nsubj
25	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 brown	parataxis
26	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 turn	xcomp
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 cooked	advmod
28	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 turn	advcl
29	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	31 frees	mark
30	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 frees	nsubj
31	frees	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 turn	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 pigment	det
33	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pigment	amod
34	pigment	pigment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 frees	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 brown	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	is	present	Most lobsters			brown property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present · passive		a blue one		often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	is a	to-infinitive		1	2 million	about property	tree rules
4	turn	present	all lobsters			red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	cook	participle	all lobsters not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	free	present	heat	the red pigment			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer pigment=Source

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:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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