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title: Stripes might also confuse a lion trying to pick out one zebra from… — Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Stripes might also confuse a lion trying to pick out one zebra from a running herd, but this is less certain. Who acts: Stripes, lion, this. A sentence of the lesson «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 7

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Stripes might also confuse a lion trying to pick out one zebra from a running herd, but this is less certain.

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**Who acts:** Stripes, lion, this · **What happens:** confuse, try, pick out, run, be · **To what, where:** lion, one zebra, running herd

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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 (Stripes, lion, this), 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:7
# text = Stripes might also confuse a lion trying to pick out one zebra from a running herd, but this is less certain.
# 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	Stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	confuse	confuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed hedge=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confuse** | might | Stripes | a lion |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | a lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pick out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a lion *not said here* | one zebra |  | a running herd |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent zebra=Theme from herd=Source |
| 4 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | certain, less *property* | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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.

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

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