The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 2

Colours and beaks have reasons: a scarlet ibis is red because of the red pigments in its crabs and shrimps, and a toucan's giant beak is light and full of air spaces.

Who acts: Colours, scarlet ibis, giant beak · What happens: have, be · To what, where: reasons, light

This is a sentence of the lesson «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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 (Colours, scarlet ibis, giant beak), 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	Colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 beaks	cc
3	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Colours	conj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 red	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ibis	det
8	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ibis	compound
9	ibis	ibis	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 red	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 red	cop
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	parataxis
12	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	16 pigments	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 because	fixed
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pigments	det
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pigments	amod
16	pigments	pigment	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 red	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 crabs	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 crabs	nmod:poss
19	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pigments	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shrimps	cc
21	shrimps	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 crabs	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 light	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 light	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 toucan	det
25	toucan	toucan	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beak	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 toucan	case
27	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beak	amod
28	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 light	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 light	cop
30	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 full	cc
32	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 light	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 spaces	case
34	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 spaces	compound
35	spaces	space	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 full	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Colours and beaks	reasons		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
2	is	present	a scarlet ibis		because the red pigments in ibis's crabs and shrimps; red property	tree rules
3	is a	present	a toucan's giant beak	light		tree rules
4	be		a toucan's giant beak not said here		of air spaces	tree rules

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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.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): R5-strong ×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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