How animals defend themselves, sentence 2

Some animals hide, but others want to be seen: the bright blue poison dart frog and the black and white skunk wear warning colours that say, loud and clear, do not even try.

Who acts: animals, others, bright blue dart frog, warning colours · What happens: hide, want, see, wear, say, not try · To what, where: warning colours · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals defend themselves» 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 (animals, others, bright blue dart frog, warning colours), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hide	nsubj
3	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 want	cc
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hide	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 seen	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 seen	aux:pass
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 want	xcomp
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 wear	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 frog	det
13	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 frog	amod
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 frog	amod
15	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dart	compound
16	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 frog	compound
17	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wear	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 skunk	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 skunk	det
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 skunk	amod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 white	cc
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 black	conj
23	skunk	skunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 frog	conj
24	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hide	parataxis
25	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 colours	compound
26	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wear	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 say	nsubj
28	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 colours	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 loud	punct
30	loud	loud	ADV	_	28 say	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 clear	cc
32	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 loud	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 try	punct
34	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 try	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 try	advmod
36	even	even	ADV	_	37 try	advmod
37	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 say	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hide	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hide	present	some animals			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	others			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	others not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
4	wear	present	the bright blue dart frog and the black skunk	warning colours		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent colour=Source
5	say speech: assert	present	warning colours		loud property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not try	present · do-support				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:053-how-animals-defend-themselves.lesson:2.

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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