--- title: When the gene for a pigment changes, you get surprises: a white rabb… — Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animal… · tree and pragmatics description: When the gene for a pigment changes, you get surprises: a white rabbit with pink eyes, a white tiger with dark stripes, a black leopard or a bright blue lobster. Who acts: gene, you. A sentence of the lesson «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» of the --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 3 When the gene for a pigment changes, you get surprises: a white rabbit with pink eyes, a white tiger with dark stripes, a black leopard or a bright blue lobster. **Who acts:** gene, you · **What happens:** change, get · **To what, where:** surprises 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 (gene, you), 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:3 # text = When the gene for a pigment changes, you get surprises: a white rabbit with pink eyes, a white tiger with dark stripes, a black leopard or a bright blue lobster. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 gene gene NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 6 pigment pigment NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 surprises surprise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 leopard leopard NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 lobster lobster NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=29:conj 35 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | the gene for a pigment | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | present | you | surprises | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer surprise=Stimulus | 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:3`. **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, 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. 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