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title: Live lobsters are usually greenish brown and turn red only when cook… — The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Live lobsters are usually greenish brown and turn red only when cooked, because heat breaks down a protein that hides the red colour; a rare blue lobster, by a common estimate about one in two million, has a gene change. Who acts: Live lobsters, heat, protein, rare blue lobster. A sentence of the le
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# The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 15

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Live lobsters are usually greenish brown and turn red only when cooked, because heat breaks down a protein that hides the red colour; a rare blue lobster, by a common estimate about one in two million, has a gene change.

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**Who acts:** Live lobsters, heat, protein, rare blue lobster · **What happens:** be, turn, cook, break down, hide, have · **To what, where:** protein, red colour, gene change

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» 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 (Live lobsters, heat, protein, rare blue lobster), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:15
# text = Live lobsters are usually greenish brown and turn red only when cooked, because heat breaks down a protein that hides the red colour; a rare blue lobster, by a common estimate about one in two million, has a gene change.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.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, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Live	Live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	greenish	greenish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	lobster	lobster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	estimate	estimate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
35	about	about	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	compound	_	_
39	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	gene	gene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Live lobsters |  |  |  |  | brown, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present | Live lobsters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cook** | participle | Live lobsters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **break down** | present | heat | a protein |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protein=Patient |
| 5 | **hide** | present | a protein | the red colour |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | present | a rare blue lobster and a common estimate about one in two million | a gene change |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Patient |

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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.

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**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 ×2, R8-pos-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.

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