--- title: Colour is also a message: it can hide an animal in dark forest, or s… — Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animal… · tree and pragmatics description: Colour is also a message: it can hide an animal in dark forest, or shout «I taste horrible» like a ladybird's red and black. Who acts: Colour, gene. 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 --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 4 Colour is also a message: it can hide an animal in dark forest, or shout «I taste horrible» like a ladybird's red and black. **Who acts:** Colour, gene · **What happens:** be, hide, shout, taste · **To what, where:** message, animal, dark forest · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Colour, gene), 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:4 # text = Colour is also a message: it can hide an animal in dark forest, or shout «I taste horrible» like a ladybird's red and black. # 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 ×1 1 Colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:acl:relcl 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 shout shout VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 taste taste VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl 21 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 ladybird ladybird NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Colour | a message | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hide** | can | gene | a animal | | dark forest | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Patient in forest=Location | | 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | gene *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **taste** *in a quote* | present | gene | | | | | like a ladybird's red; horrible *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:4`. **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 ×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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