--- title: Flamingos are pink from the colours in the algae and brine shrimp th… — Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrot… · tree and pragmatics description: Flamingos are pink from the colours in the algae and brine shrimp they eat; chicks are grey, and the backward bend in the leg is the ankle, not the knee, which is hidden up in the feathers. Who acts: Flamingos, chicks, backward bend. 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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, chicks, backward bend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:035-birds-of-every-kind.lesson:13 # text = Flamingos are pink from the colours in the algae and brine shrimp they eat; chicks are grey, and the backward bend in the leg is the ankle, not the knee, which is hidden up in the feathers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 035-birds-of-every-kind.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 Flamingos flamingo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 brine brine NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 shrimp shrimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 backward backward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 bend bend NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ankle ankle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 parataxis _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 42 . . 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 | **is** | present | Flamingos | | | the colours in the algae and brine shrimp | | pink *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | present | Flamingos *= flamingo* | brine shrimp *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrimp=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | chicks | | | | | grey *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | the backward bend in the leg | the ankle | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hide up** | present · passive | | the ankle | | the feathers | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in feather=Location | 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:035-birds-of-every-kind.lesson:13`. **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/). - ← previous: [Birds of every kind: penguins, ostrich…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/10/) - next →: [Birds of every kind: penguins, ostrich…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/)