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title: White tigers and white lions are not albino: a gene makes their fur… — Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animal… · tree and pragmatics
description: White tigers and white lions are not albino: a gene makes their fur pale, but they still have dark stripes or eyes, and breeding close relatives together again and again in zoos gave many white tigers health problems. Who acts: White tigers, gene, lions. A sentence of the lesson «Animal colours: pin
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# Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 13

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White tigers and white lions are not albino: a gene makes their fur pale, but they still have dark stripes or eyes, and breeding close relatives together again and again in zoos gave many white tigers health problems.

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**Who acts:** White tigers, gene, lions · **What happens:** not be, make, have, breed, give · **To what, where:** albino, fur, dark stripes, close relatives, zoos, health problems

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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 (White tigers, gene, lions), 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:13
# text = White tigers and white lions are not albino: a gene makes their fur pale, but they still have dark stripes or eyes, and breeding close relatives together again and again in zoos gave many white tigers health problems.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	albino	albino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gene	gene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:acl:relcl
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	breeding	breed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
28	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	together	together	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nsubj
36	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	compound	_	_
40	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **not** **is a** | present | White tigers and white lions | albino |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | a gene | lions's fur |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fur=Product |
| 3 | **have** | present | lions *= lion* | dark stripes or eyes |  |  | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Patient |
| 4 | **breed** | gerund |  | close relatives |  | zoos | again | together *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | past |  | health problems |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme |

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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: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): R5-strong ×3, 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/).

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