--- title: Flamingos get their pink colour from pink chemicals in the tiny alga… — Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hipp… · tree and pragmatics description: Flamingos get their pink colour from pink chemicals in the tiny algae and shrimps they eat, so zoo flamingos are given special food to stay pink. Who acts: Flamingos. 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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 (Flamingos), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.lesson:14 # text = Flamingos get their pink colour from pink chemicals in the tiny algae and shrimps they eat, so zoo flamingos are given special food to stay pink. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Flamingos flamingo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 14 shrimps shrimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl:relcl 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 so so CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 19 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 flamingos flamingo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 23 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl 27 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 . . 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 | **get** | present | Flamingos | flamingos's pink colour | | pink chemicals in the tiny algae and shrimps | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent colour=Theme from chemical=Source | | 2 | **eat** | present | flamingos *= flamingo* | the tiny algae and shrimps *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Patient | | 3 | **give** | present · passive | | zoo flamingos | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient food=Theme | | 4 | **stay** | to-infinitive | | | | | | pink *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.lesson:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, 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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