--- title: Marty asks whether he is white with black stripes or black with whit… — Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos an… · tree and pragmatics description: Marty asks whether he is white with black stripes or black with white stripes, and science has an answer: under the fur a zebra's skin is black, so it is black with white stripes. Who acts: Marty, science, skin. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marty, science, skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.lesson:1 # text = Marty asks whether he is white with black stripes or black with white stripes, and science has an answer: under the fur a zebra's skin is black, so it is black with white stripes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Marty Marty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 22 under under ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Marty | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Marty | | | | | with black stripes or black white stripes; white *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | science | a answer | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | a zebra's skin | | | the fur | | black *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | skin | | | | | with white stripes; 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.lesson:1`. **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): 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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