--- title: Under its fur a zebra's skin is black, so scientists say zebras are… — Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos an… · tree and pragmatics description: Under its fur a zebra's skin is black, so scientists say zebras are black with white stripes, and every zebra's pattern is unique. Who acts: scientists, zebras, pattern, zebra. A sentence of the lesson «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» of the biology course of Mova's prima --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes/) / 5 # Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 5 Under its fur a zebra's skin is black, so scientists say zebras are black with white stripes, and every zebra's pattern is unique. **Who acts:** scientists, zebras, pattern, zebra · **What happens:** be, say, pattern · **To what, where:** fur · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (scientists, zebras, pattern, zebra), 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:5 # text = Under its fur a zebra's skin is black, so scientists say zebras are black with white stripes, and every zebra's pattern is unique. # 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 ×1 1 Under under ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 12 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 zebras zebra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 unique unique ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | side's fur a zebra's skin | | black *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | scientists | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | zebras | | | | | with white stripes; black *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | every zebra's pattern | | | | | unique *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **pattern** | | every zebra | | | | | | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:5`. **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 ×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. 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