--- title: A polar bear's hairs are see-through and hollow and its skin is blac… — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics description: A polar bear's hairs are see-through and hollow and its skin is black; the clear hairs scatter light, so the bear looks white against the ice; zoo polar bears have even turned a bit green when tiny algae grew inside their hollow hairs. Who acts: hairs, skin, clear hairs, bear. 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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 (hairs, skin, clear hairs, bear), 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:8 # text = A polar bear's hairs are see-through and hollow and its skin is black; the clear hairs scatter light, so the bear looks white against the ice; zoo polar bears have even turned a bit green when tiny algae grew inside their hollow hairs. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 see see ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 9 through through ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 scatter scatter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 22 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 28 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 against against ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 36 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 even even ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:det 40 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:compound 41 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 42 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 45 advmod _ _ 43 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 45 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 46 inside inside ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 48 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | a polar bear's hairs | | | | | through *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a polar bear's hairs *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | bear's skin | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **scatter** | present | the clear hairs | light | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme | | 5 | **look** | present | the bear | | | | | white *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **turn** | present · perfect | zoo polar bears | | | | | green *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **grow** | past | tiny algae | | | algae's hollow hairs | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside hair=Location | 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. 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