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title: A polar bear's fur looks white, but each hair is actually colourless… — Where did you read that? Checking sources · tree and pragmatics
description: A polar bear's fur looks white, but each hair is actually colourless and the skin underneath is black. Who acts: fur, hair, skin underneath. A sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 16

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A polar bear's fur looks white, but each hair is actually colourless and the skin underneath is black.

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**Who acts:** fur, hair, skin underneath · **What happens:** look, be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths 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 (fur, hair, skin underneath), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.lesson:16
# text = A polar bear's fur looks white, but each hair is actually colourless and the skin underneath is black.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
2	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	colourless	colourless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
17	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	underneath	underneath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | a polar bear's fur |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | each hair |  |  |  |  | actually, colourless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | skin underneath |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |

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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 ×2. **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/).

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