--- title: Dark meat has more myoglobin, a red protein that stores oxygen in mu… — Where meat and fish come from, told honestly · tree and pragmatics description: Dark meat has more myoglobin, a red protein that stores oxygen in muscles that work for a long time, so a chicken's legs are dark and its breast is pale, while ducks and wild pigeons that fly a lot have dark breast meat. Who acts: Dark meat, red protein, muscles, legs. 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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 (Dark meat, red protein, muscles, legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson:11 # text = Dark meat has more myoglobin, a red protein that stores oxygen in muscles that work for a long time, so a chicken's legs are dark and its breast is pale, while ducks and wild pigeons that fly a lot have dark breast meat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.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 1 Dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 myoglobin myoglobin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 protein protein NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stores store VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 while while SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 36 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:acl:relcl 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 45 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Dark meat | more myoglobin | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myoglobin=Patient | | 2 | **store** | present | a red protein | oxygen | | muscles | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme in muscle=Location | | 3 | **work** | present | muscles | | | | time | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | a chicken's legs | | | | | dark *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | meat's breast | | | | | pale *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **fly** | present | ducks and wild pigeons | a lot | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lot=Theme | | 7 | **have** | present | ducks and wild pigeons | dark breast meat | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | 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:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson:11`. **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. **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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