--- title: Scarlet ibises get their red colour from pigments in the crabs and s… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics description: Scarlet ibises get their red colour from pigments in the crabs and shrimps they eat, so zoos add the pigment to their food to keep them red; without it, new feathers grow in paler. Who acts: Scarlet ibises, beaks, zoos, new feathers. 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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 (Scarlet ibises, beaks, zoos, new feathers), 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:6 # text = Scarlet ibises get their red colour from pigments in the crabs and shrimps they eat, so zoos add the pigment to their food to keep them red; without it, new feathers grow in paler. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Scarlet scarlet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 ibises ibis NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 pigments pigment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 shrimps shrimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pigment pigment NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 without without ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 paler pale ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:xcomp 38 . . 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 | **get** | present | Scarlet ibises | beaks's red colour | | pigments in the crabs and shrimps | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent colour=Theme from pigment=Source | | 2 | **eat** | present | beaks *= beak* | the crabs and shrimps *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Patient | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | zoos | the pigment | | | | to beaks's food | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pigment=Patient to food=Co-Patient | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | zoos *not said here* | beaks *= beak* | | | | red *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | present | new feathers | | | paler | | without ibis | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pale=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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