--- title: Colours and beaks have reasons: a scarlet ibis is red because of the… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics description: Colours and beaks have reasons: a scarlet ibis is red because of the red pigments in its crabs and shrimps, and a toucan's giant beak is light and full of air spaces. Who acts: Colours, scarlet ibis, giant beak. 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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 (Colours, scarlet ibis, giant beak), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:2 # text = Colours and beaks have reasons: a scarlet ibis is red because of the red pigments in its crabs and shrimps, and a toucan's giant beak is light and full of air spaces. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.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 1 Colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 scarlet scarlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 ibis ibis NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 12 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 16 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 pigments pigment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 shrimps shrimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 toucan toucan NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 spaces space NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Colours and beaks | reasons | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | a scarlet ibis | | | | | because the red pigments in ibis's crabs and shrimps; red *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | a toucan's giant beak | light | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | a toucan's giant beak *not said here* | | | | | of air spaces | tree rules | 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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:2`. **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. **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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