Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 16
A polar bear's fur looks white, but each hair is actually colourless and the skin underneath is black.
Who acts: fur, hair, skin underneath · What happens: look, be
This is a sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths 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 (fur, hair, skin underneath), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 2 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bear | amod |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fur | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 bear | case |
| 5 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looks | nsubj |
| 6 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looks | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 colourless | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 colourless | cc |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 hair | det |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 colourless | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 colourless | cop |
| 13 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 14 colourless | advmod |
| 14 | colourless | colourless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looks | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 black | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skin | det |
| 17 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 underneath | compound |
| 18 | underneath | underneath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 black | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 black | cop |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 colourless | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | a polar bear's fur | white property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | each hair | actually, colourless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | skin underneath | black property | 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:myths:028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.lesson:16.
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. 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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