The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds, sentence 8

Every zebra's stripes are different, the skin under the hair is dark, and strong evidence shows the stripes put off biting flies.

Who acts: stripes, skin, strong evidence · What happens: be, show, put off, bite · To what, where: flies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds» 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 (stripes, skin, strong evidence), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 zebra	det
2	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stripes	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 zebra	case
4	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 different	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 different	cop
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dark	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skin	det
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dark	nsubj
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 hair	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hair	det
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skin	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dark	cop
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 different	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shows	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 shows	cc
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 evidence	amod
18	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shows	nsubj
19	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 different	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stripes	det
21	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 put	nsubj
22	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 shows	ccomp
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 put	compound:prt
24	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 put	advcl
25	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 biting	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 different	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	every zebra's stripes		different property	tree rules
2	is	present	the skin under the hair		dark property	tree rules
3	show	present	strong evidence			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	put off	past	the stripes			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	bite	gerund	the stripes not said here	flies		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient

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:004-the-savanna.lesson:8.

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, R6-punct-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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