Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 16

On the Malay peninsula in South-East Asia almost all leopards are reported to be black, because a black coat is good camouflage in dark, damp forest.

Who acts: black coat · What happens: report, be · To what, where: leopards, Malay peninsula, good camouflage, dark damp forest

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 (black coat), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 peninsula	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peninsula	det
3	Malay	Malay	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 peninsula	compound
4	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reported	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 South	case
6	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 peninsula	nmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 South	punct
8	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Asia	compound
9	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 South	flat
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 leopards	advmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 leopards	det
12	leopards	leopard	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 reported	nsubj:pass
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 reported	aux:pass
14	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	17 black	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 black	cop
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 reported	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 camouflage	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 camouflage	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 coat	det
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 coat	amod
22	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 camouflage	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 camouflage	cop
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 camouflage	amod
25	camouflage	camouflage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 black	advcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 forest	case
27	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 forest	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dark	punct
29	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 forest	amod
30	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 camouflage	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 reported	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	report	present · passive		all leopards	the Malay peninsula in South		vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	to-infinitive				black property	tree rules
3	is a	present	a black coat	good camouflage	dark damp forest		tree rules

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:16.

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): 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.

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