--- title: On the Malay peninsula in South-East Asia almost all leopards are re… — Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animal… · tree and pragmatics description: On the Malay peninsula in South-East Asia almost all leopards are reported to be black, because a black coat is good camouflage in dark, damp forest. Who acts: black coat. A sentence of the lesson «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» of the biology co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare b…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers/) / 16 # Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 16 On the Malay peninsula in South-East Asia almost all leopards are reported to be black, because a black coat is good camouflage in dark, damp forest. **Who acts:** black coat · **What happens:** report, be · **To what, where:** leopards, Malay peninsula, good camouflage, dark damp forest 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 (black coat), 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:16 # text = On the Malay peninsula in South-East Asia almost all leopards are reported to be black, because a black coat is good camouflage in dark, damp forest. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Malay Malay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 peninsula peninsula NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 10 almost almost ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 leopards leopard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 camouflage camouflage NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 advcl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | present · passive | | all leopards | | the Malay peninsula in South | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | a black coat | good camouflage | | dark damp forest | | | tree rules | 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:16`. **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): 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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