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title: A hippo's skin makes an oily red-orange liquid, sometimes called blo… — Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos an… · tree and pragmatics
description: A hippo's skin makes an oily red-orange liquid, sometimes called blood sweat though it is neither blood nor sweat, which works like sunscreen. Who acts: skin, oily red orange liquid. A sentence of the lesson «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» of the biology course of Mova's
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# Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 10

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A hippo's skin makes an oily red-orange liquid, sometimes called blood sweat though it is neither blood nor sweat, which works like sunscreen.

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**Who acts:** skin, oily red orange liquid · **What happens:** make, call, be, work · **To what, where:** oily red orange liquid, blood sweat, blood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» 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 (skin, oily red orange liquid), 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:10
# text = A hippo's skin makes an oily red-orange liquid, sometimes called blood sweat though it is neither blood nor sweat, which works like sunscreen.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	hippo	hippo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	oily	oily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
10	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc:preconj	_	_
21	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	_
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
23	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	sunscreen	sunscreen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | a hippo's skin | a oily red orange liquid |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset liquid=Product |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a oily red orange liquid *not said here* | blood sweat |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | skin | blood nor sweat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | present | a oily red orange liquid |  |  |  |  | like sunscreen | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:10`.

**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 ×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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