--- title: Every zebra's stripes are different, the skin under the hair is dark… — The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds · tree and pragmatics description: Every zebra's stripes are different, the skin under the hair is dark, and strong evidence shows the stripes put off biting flies. Who acts: stripes, skin, strong evidence. 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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 (stripes, skin, strong evidence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:004-the-savanna.lesson:8 # text = Every zebra's stripes are different, the skin under the hair is dark, and strong evidence shows the stripes put off biting flies. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 004-the-savanna.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 10 under under ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj 22 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 off off ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 biting bite VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 25 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 . . 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 | every zebra's stripes | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the skin under the hair | | | | | dark *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **show** | present | strong evidence | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **put off** | past | the stripes | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bite** | gerund | the stripes *not said here* | flies | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient | 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:004-the-savanna.lesson:8`. **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, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The savanna: grass, trees and the grea…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/7/) - next →: [The savanna: grass, trees and the grea…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/)