Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 11

An albino animal cannot make melanin, the dark pigment of skin, hair and eyes, so its eyes look pink or red from the blood vessels showing through.

Who acts: albino animal, eyes, blood vessels · What happens: not make, look, show · To what, where: melanin

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 (albino animal, eyes, blood vessels), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 animal	det
2	albino	albino	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animal	compound
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	melanin	melanin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pigment	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pigment	det
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pigment	amod
11	pigment	pigment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 melanin	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 skin	case
13	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pigment	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hair	punct
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 skin	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eyes	cc
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 skin	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 look	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 look	advmod
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 look	nsubj
22	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	conj
23	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 look	xcomp
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 red	cc
25	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pink	conj
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 vessels	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 vessels	det
28	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 vessels	compound
29	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 look	obl
30	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 vessels	acl
31	through	through	ADV	_	30 showing	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not make	can	a albino animal	melanin		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melanin=Product
2	look	present	animal's eyes		from the blood vessels; pink property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from vessel=Theme
3	show	gerund	the blood vessels not said here		through property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers.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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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