--- title: A ladybird's red and black are a warning: it tastes bitter and oozes… — Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animal… · tree and pragmatics description: A ladybird's red and black are a warning: it tastes bitter and oozes yellow liquid from its knees when grabbed. Who acts: red, ladybird. 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 with --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 18 A ladybird's red and black are a warning: it tastes bitter and oozes yellow liquid from its knees when grabbed. **Who acts:** red, ladybird · **What happens:** be, taste, ooze, grab · **To what, where:** warning, yellow liquid, knees 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 (red, ladybird), 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:18 # text = A ladybird's red and black are a warning: it tastes bitter and oozes yellow liquid from its knees when grabbed. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ladybird ladybird NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:amod 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 tastes taste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl:relcl 13 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 oozes ooze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 21 when when SCONJ WRB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 grabbed grab VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a ladybird's red | a warning | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **taste** | present | ladybird | | | | | bitter *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **ooze** | present | ladybird *not said here* | yellow liquid | | ladybird's knees | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location liquid=Source | | 4 | **grab** | participle | ladybird *not said here* | | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:18`. **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): 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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