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title: An albino animal cannot make melanin, the dark pigment of skin, hair… — Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animal… · tree and pragmatics
description: An albino animal cannot make melanin, the dark pigment of skin, hair and eyes, so its eyes look pink or red from the blood vessels showing through. Who acts: albino animal, eyes, blood vessels. A sentence of the lesson «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panth
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# Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 11

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An albino animal cannot make melanin, the dark pigment of skin, hair and eyes, so its eyes look pink or red from the blood vessels showing through.

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**Who acts:** albino animal, eyes, blood vessels · **What happens:** not make, look, show · **To what, where:** melanin

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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 (albino animal, eyes, blood vessels), 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:11
# text = An albino animal cannot make melanin, the dark pigment of skin, hair and eyes, so its eyes look pink or red from the blood vessels showing through.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	albino	albino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	melanin	melanin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pigment	pigment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl
30	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	through	through	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **not** **make** | can | a albino animal | melanin |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melanin=Product |
| 2 | **look** | present | animal's eyes |  |  |  |  | from the blood vessels; pink *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from vessel=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | the blood vessels *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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