Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 4

Colour is also a message: it can hide an animal in dark forest, or shout «I taste horrible» like a ladybird's red and black.

Who acts: Colour, gene · What happens: be, hide, shout, taste · To what, where: message, animal, dark forest · 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 (Colour, gene), 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	Colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 message	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 message	cop
3	also	also	ADV	_	5 message	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 message	det
5	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 hide	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hide	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hide	aux
9	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 message	parataxis
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 animal	det
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hide	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 forest	amod
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hide	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shout	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 shout	cc
17	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hide	conj
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 taste	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 taste	nsubj
20	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 shout	ccomp
21	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 taste	xcomp
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 taste	punct
23	like	like	ADP	_	27 red	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 ladybird	det
25	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 red	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 ladybird	case
27	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 taste	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 black	cc
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 red	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 message	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Colour	a message			tree rules
2	hide	can	gene	a animal	dark forest		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Patient in forest=Location
3	shout speech: express	infinitive	gene not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	taste in a quote	present	gene			like a ladybird's red; horrible property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:4.

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 ×2, 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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