--- title: A jay's feather is blue because of shape: crush it and the blue is g… — Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animal… · tree and pragmatics description: A jay's feather is blue because of shape: crush it and the blue is gone, leaving grey-brown. Who acts: feather, blue. 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 its dependency tree --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 2 A jay's feather is blue because of shape: crush it and the blue is gone, leaving grey-brown. **Who acts:** feather, blue · **What happens:** be, crush, leave · **To what, where:** feather 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 (feather, blue), 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:2 # text = A jay's feather is blue because of shape: crush it and the blue is gone, leaving grey-brown. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 jay jay NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 11 crush crush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 blue blue NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl 20 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is** | present | a jay's feather | | | | | shape *obl*; blue *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **crush** | infinitive | | feather | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | the blue | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **leave** | gerund | the blue *not said here* | | | | | brown *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:2`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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