Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 5

And the biggest cartoon fib of all is the cliff: nothing hangs in the air before it falls, because gravity pulls the moment there is no ground below you.

Who acts: biggest cartoon fib, nothing, fib, gravity · What happens: be, hang, fall, pull · To what, where: air

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 (biggest cartoon fib, nothing, fib, gravity), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 fib	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fib	det
3	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 fib	amod
4	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fib	compound
5	fib	fib	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cliff	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 cliff	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fib	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cliff	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cliff	det
10	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 cliff	punct
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 hangs	nsubj
13	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cliff	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hangs	obl
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 falls	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 falls	nsubj
19	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hangs	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 falls	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 pulls	mark
22	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pulls	nsubj
23	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hangs	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moment	det
25	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pulls	obj
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 is	expl
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 moment	acl:relcl
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 ground	det
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 is	nsubj
30	below	below	ADV	_	29 ground	advmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 moment	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cliff	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the biggest cartoon fib all			of the cliff	tree rules
2	hang	present	nothing	the air			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location
3	fall	present	fib				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pull	present	gravity		moment		vn slide-11.2 «NP 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, 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:5.

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.

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