Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 5
Flamingo chicks hatch grey and white and turn pink only after years of eating; both parents feed them a red milk made in their throats and turn paler while they do it.
Who acts: Flamingo chicks, parents · What happens: hatch, turn, feed, make, do · To what, where: red milk, chicks, throats, milk
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 (Flamingo chicks, parents), 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 | Flamingo | flamingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chicks | compound |
| 2 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hatch | nsubj |
| 3 | hatch | hatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hatch | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 white | cc |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grey | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 turn | cc |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hatch | conj |
| 9 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turn | xcomp |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 years | advmod |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turn | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 eating | case |
| 14 | eating | eat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 years | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 feed | punct |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 parents | det |
| 17 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 feed | nsubj |
| 18 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hatch | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 feed | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 milk | det |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 milk | amod |
| 22 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feed | obj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 milk | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 throats | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 throats | nmod:poss |
| 26 | throats | throat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 made | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 turn | cc |
| 28 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 feed | conj |
| 29 | paler | pale | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 turn | xcomp |
| 30 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 32 do | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 do | nsubj |
| 32 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 turn | advcl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 do | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hatch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hatch | present | Flamingo chicks | grey property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | Flamingo chicks not said here | year | pink property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | feed | present | both parents | a red milk | chicks = chick | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient milk=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | participle | a red milk not said here | chicks's throats | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | turn | present | both parents not said here | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do | present | parents = parent | milk | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:5.
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 ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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