The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 6
Scarlet ibises get their red colour from pigments in the crabs and shrimps they eat, so zoos add the pigment to their food to keep them red; without it, new feathers grow in paler.
Who acts: Scarlet ibises, beaks, zoos, new feathers · What happens: get, eat, add, keep, grow · To what, where: red colour, pigments, crabs, pigment, beaks, paler
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 (Scarlet ibises, beaks, zoos, new feathers), 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 | Scarlet | scarlet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ibises | amod |
| 2 | ibises | ibis | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 colour | nmod:poss |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 colour | amod |
| 6 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 pigments | case |
| 8 | pigments | pigment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 crabs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crabs | det |
| 11 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pigments | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shrimps | cc |
| 13 | shrimps | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 crabs | conj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 crabs | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 add | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 add | advmod |
| 18 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 add | nsubj |
| 19 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pigment | det |
| 21 | pigment | pigment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 add | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 food | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 food | nmod:poss |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 add | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 keep | mark |
| 26 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 add | advcl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 keep | obj |
| 28 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 keep | xcomp |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 it | punct |
| 30 | without | without | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 grow | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 grow | punct |
| 33 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 feathers | amod |
| 34 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 grow | nsubj |
| 35 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 paler | case |
| 37 | paler | pale | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 grow | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Scarlet ibises | beaks's red colour | pigments in the crabs and shrimps | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent colour=Theme from pigment=Source | |||
| 2 | eat | present | beaks = beak | the crabs and shrimps not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Patient | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | present | zoos | the pigment | to beaks's food | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pigment=Patient to food=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | zoos not said here | beaks = beak | red property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | grow | present | new feathers | paler | without ibis | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pale=Location |
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:6.
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, R7-rel-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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