--- title: Flamingo chicks hatch grey and white and turn pink only after years… — Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animal… · tree and pragmatics description: Flamingo chicks hatch grey and white and turn pink only after years of eating; both parents feed them a red milk made in their throats and turn paler while they do it. Who acts: Flamingo chicks, parents. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flamingo chicks, parents), 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:5 # text = Flamingo chicks hatch grey and white and turn pink only after years of eating; both parents feed them a red milk made in their throats and turn paler while they do it. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Flamingo flamingo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 6 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 8 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 eating eat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:cc:preconj|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 17 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 throats throat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 paler pale ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 xcomp _ _ 30 while while SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advcl 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hatch** | present | Flamingo chicks | | | | | grey *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **turn** | present | Flamingo chicks *not said here* | | | | year | pink *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **feed** | present | both parents | a red milk | chicks *= chick* | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient milk=Theme | | 4 | **make** | participle | | a red milk *not said here* | | chicks's throats | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **turn** | present | both parents *not said here* | | | | | pale *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **do** | present | parents *= parent* | milk | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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