--- title: Flamingos get their pink from pigments in the shrimps and algae they… — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics description: Flamingos get their pink from pigments in the shrimps and algae they eat; fed without those pigments, they slowly turn white. Who acts: Flamingos, Carrots. 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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 (Flamingos, Carrots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:028-colour-in-nature.lesson:12 # text = Flamingos get their pink from pigments in the shrimps and algae they eat; fed without those pigments, they slowly turn white. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 028-colour-in-nature.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Flamingos flamingo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 pink pink NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 pigments pigment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 shrimps shrimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ _ 16 without without ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 pigments pigment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 23 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **get** | present | Flamingos | Carrots's pink | | pigments in the shrimps and algae | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pink=Theme from pigment=Source | | 2 | **eat** | present | Carrots *= carrot* | the shrimps and algae *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrimp=Patient | | 3 | **feed** | participle | Carrots *= carrot* *not said here* | | | | | without that pigments | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **turn** | present | Carrots *= carrot* | | | | | slowly, white *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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:chemistry:028-colour-in-nature.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/11/) - next →: [Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/)