--- title: Hippos make a red oily fluid on their skin that works like sunscreen… — The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, l… · tree and pragmatics description: Hippos make a red oily fluid on their skin that works like sunscreen and helps stop germs, often called blood sweat, though it is not blood or sweat. Who acts: Hippos, red oily fluid, germs, fluid. 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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 (Hippos, red oily fluid, germs, fluid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:160-the-congo-river.lesson:10 # text = Hippos make a red oily fluid on their skin that works like sunscreen and helps stop germs, often called blood sweat, though it is not blood or sweat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 160-the-congo-river.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Hippos hippo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 oily oily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 fluid fluid NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl 12 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 sunscreen sunscreen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 17 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 21 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 sweat sweat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 though though SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 advcl _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 sweat sweat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 . . 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 | **make** | present | Hippos | a red oily fluid | | hippos's skin | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fluid=Product | | 2 | **work** | present | a red oily fluid | | | | | like sunscreen | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **help** | present | a red oily fluid *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | infinitive | a red oily fluid *not said here* | germs | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality germ=Eventuality | | 5 | **call** | participle | germs *not said here* | blood sweat | | | | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is a** | present | fluid | blood or sweat | | | | | 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:160-the-congo-river.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 ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/9/) - next →: [The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/)