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title: Most lobsters are dark greenish brown, and a blue one is often said… — Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most lobsters are dark greenish brown, and a blue one is often said to be about 1 in 2 million; all lobsters turn red when cooked because heat frees the red pigment. Who acts: Most lobsters, lobsters, heat. A sentence of the lesson «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos an
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# Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 10

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Most lobsters are dark greenish brown, and a blue one is often said to be about 1 in 2 million; all lobsters turn red when cooked because heat frees the red pigment.

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**Who acts:** Most lobsters, lobsters, heat · **What happens:** be, say, turn, cook, free · **To what, where:** blue one, 1, 2 million, red pigment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most lobsters, lobsters, heat), 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:10
# text = Most lobsters are dark greenish brown, and a blue one is often said to be about 1 in 2 million; all lobsters turn red when cooked because heat frees the red pigment.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	greenish	greenish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
21	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
26	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
28	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
29	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	31	mark	_	_
30	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	frees	free	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advcl
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	pigment	pigment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Most lobsters |  |  |  |  | brown *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a blue one |  |  |  | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | 1 |  | 2 million |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn** | present | all lobsters |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cook** | participle | all lobsters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **free** | present | heat | the red pigment |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer pigment=Source |

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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.

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**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:10`.

**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 ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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