--- title: That is why many poisonous animals are dressed in red, yellow, orang… — Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics · tree and pragmatics description: That is why many poisonous animals are dressed in red, yellow, orange or black, nature's danger signs, like the yellow and black tape round a hole in the road. Who acts: nature. 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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 (nature), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:247-defences-poison-warning-colours-and-mimics.lesson:1 # text = That is why many poisonous animals are dressed in red, yellow, orange or black, nature's danger signs, like the yellow and black tape round a hole in the road. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 247-defences-poison-warning-colours-and-mimics.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 10 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:amod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 tape tape NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 29 round round ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present · passive | | That | | nature's red danger signs like the yellow tape a hole in the road | | dress *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sign** | | nature | | | | | like the yellow tape a hole in the road | nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=agent like=obl | 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:247-defences-poison-warning-colours-and-mimics.lesson:1`. **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, R6-punct-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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