--- title: Every zebra has its own stripe pattern; scientists think the main jo… — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics description: Every zebra has its own stripe pattern; scientists think the main job of stripes is to keep biting flies away, which they tested by putting striped and plain coats on horses and counting fly landings, and they may also confuse lions in a running herd. 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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 (zebra, scientists, main job, stripes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:051-how-animals-hide.lesson:13 # text = Every zebra has its own stripe pattern; scientists think the main job of stripes is to keep biting flies away, which they tested by putting striped and plain coats on horses and counting fly landings, and they may also confuse lions in a running herd. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 051-how-animals-hide.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 stripe stripe NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 19 biting bite VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 amod _ _ 20 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obj _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 tested test VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 26 by by SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 28 striped stripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 31 coats coat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 36 fly fly NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 37 landings landing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 also also ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 confuse confuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 44 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 48 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=48:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 48 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 49 . . 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 | **have** | present | every zebra | zebra's own stripe pattern | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the main job of stripes | | | | | away, keep *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **bite** | gerund | | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **test** | participle | scientists *= scientist* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 6 | **put** | gerund | scientists *= scientist* *not said here* | striped coats | | | | on horses | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme on horse=Destination | | 7 | **count** | gerund | scientists *= scientist* *not said here* | fly landings | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landing=Theme | | 8 | **confuse** | may | scientists *= scientist* | lions | | a running herd | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient | | 9 | **run** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **pattern** | | zebra | | | | | | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | | 11 | **job** | | stripes | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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:051-how-animals-hide.lesson:13`. **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 ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/12/) - next →: [How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/)