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title: Hippos ooze a red-orange liquid sometimes called «blood sweat», whic… — The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hippos ooze a red-orange liquid sometimes called «blood sweat», which is neither blood nor sweat but works as sunscreen and may help stop germs in cuts. Who acts: Hippos, orange liquid. A sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» of the biol
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# The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas, sentence 6

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Hippos ooze a red-orange liquid sometimes called «blood sweat», which is neither blood nor sweat but works as sunscreen and may help stop germs in cuts.

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**Who acts:** Hippos, orange liquid · **What happens:** ooze, call, be, work, help, stop · **To what, where:** orange liquid, blood, germs, cuts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» 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 (Hippos, orange liquid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:6
# text = Hippos ooze a red-orange liquid sometimes called «blood sweat», which is neither blood nor sweat but works as sunscreen and may help stop germs in cuts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Hippos	hippo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ooze	ooze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc:preconj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Neg
18	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc	_	_
20	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sunscreen	sunscreen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
28	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
29	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ooze** | present | Hippos | a orange liquid |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location liquid=Source |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a orange liquid *not said here* | blood |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent blood=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a orange liquid | blood nor sweat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | present | a orange liquid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as sunscreen | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as sunscreen=Attribute |
| 5 | **help** | may | a orange liquid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **stop** | infinitive | a orange liquid *not said here* | germs |  | cuts |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality germ=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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