Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 15

Gravity pulls at once when there is no ground below; the coyote's pause in the air is «cartoon physics», put there so the audience has time to laugh.

Who acts: Gravity, ground, audience · What happens: pull, be, put, have, laugh · To what, where: « cartoon physics · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» of the biology 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 (Gravity, ground, audience), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	nsubj
2	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 pulls	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 is	advmod
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 is	expl
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pulls	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	nsubj
10	below	below	ADV	_	9 ground	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 pause	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coyote	det
13	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pause	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 coyote	case
15	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 air	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 air	det
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pause	nmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 physics	cop
20	«	«	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 physics	amod
21	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 physics	compound
22	physics	physics	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	parataxis
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 physics	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct
25	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 physics	acl
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 put	advmod
27	so	so	SCONJ	_	30 has	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 audience	det
29	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 has	nsubj
30	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 put	advcl
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 has	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 laugh	mark
33	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 time	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pulls	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pull	present	Gravity				tree rules
2	be	present	no ground		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present		« cartoon physics			tree rules
4	put	participle		« cartoon physics not said here	there		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	have	present	the audience			time	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	laugh	to-infinitive	the audience not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson:15.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/15/