Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 3
When the gene for a pigment changes, you get surprises: a white rabbit with pink eyes, a white tiger with dark stripes, a black leopard or a bright blue lobster.
Who acts: gene, you · What happens: change, get · To what, where: surprises
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 (gene, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 changes | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gene | det |
| 3 | gene | gene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changes | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 pigment | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pigment | det |
| 6 | pigment | pigment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gene | nmod |
| 7 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | surprises | surprise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 get | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 rabbit | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rabbit | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rabbit | amod |
| 15 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 surprises | appos |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 17 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rabbit | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tiger | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tiger | det |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tiger | amod |
| 22 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rabbit | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 stripes | case |
| 24 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stripes | amod |
| 25 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tiger | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 leopard | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 leopard | det |
| 28 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 leopard | amod |
| 29 | leopard | leopard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rabbit | conj |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 lobster | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 lobster | det |
| 32 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 lobster | amod |
| 33 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 lobster | amod |
| 34 | lobster | lobster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rabbit | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | the gene for a pigment | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | present | you | surprises | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer surprise=Stimulus |
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:3.
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, R7-rel-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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