--- title: Real biology: animals do not change colour by standing in shadows; t… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: Real biology: animals do not change colour by standing in shadows; their patterns are passed down from parents, and over a very long time the ones whose colours hid them best survived more often and had more young. Who acts: animals, ones. 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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 (animals, ones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:077-justso-leopard-spots-1.lesson:19 # text = Real biology: animals do not change colour by standing in shadows; their patterns are passed down from parents, and over a very long time the ones whose colours hid them best survived more often and had more young. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 077-justso-leopard-spots-1.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 biology biology NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl _ _ 8 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 by by SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 patterns pattern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 18 down down ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 19 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 23 over over ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 32 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 best good ADV RBS Degree=Sup 32 advmod _ _ 35 survived survive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 37 often often ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 40 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 obj _ _ 41 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **change** | present · do-support | animals | colour | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | | 2 | **stand** | gerund | animals *not said here* | | | shadows | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shadow=Location | | 3 | **pass down** | present · passive | | animals's patterns | | | | from parents | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from parent=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **hide** | past | the ones | animals *= animal* | | | time | good *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **survive** | past | the ones *not said here* | | | | | often *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **have** | past | the ones *not said here* | more young | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | | 7 | **pattern** | | animals *= animal* | | | | | | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=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. 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