--- title: Animal colours come in two kinds: pigments, which are coloured stuff… — Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animal… · tree and pragmatics description: Animal colours come in two kinds: pigments, which are coloured stuff in the body like paint, and structures, tiny shapes that bend and scatter light like a soap bubble. Who acts: Animal colours, tiny shapes. 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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 (Animal colours, tiny shapes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers.lesson:0 # text = Animal colours come in two kinds: pigments, which are coloured stuff in the body like paint, and structures, tiny shapes that bend and scatter light like a soap bubble. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 pigments pigment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 coloured colour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 17 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 structures structure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 bend bend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 scatter scatter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 29 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obj 30 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 bubble bubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 34 . . 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 | **come in** | present | Animal colours | two kinds | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **colour** | present · passive | | pigments and structures and tiny shapes | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bend** | present | tiny shapes | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **scatter** | present | tiny shapes *not said here* | light | | | | like a soap bubble | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=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:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers.lesson:0`. **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 ×4, 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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