Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 7

Real roadrunners do not say «meep meep»; they make soft cooing sounds and loud rattles by clattering their beaks.

Who acts: Real roadrunners, rockets · What happens: not say, make, clatter · To what, where: meep meep, soft cooing sounds, beaks · 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 (Real roadrunners, rockets), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 roadrunners	amod
2	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 meep	punct
7	meep	meep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meep	compound
8	meep	meep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 meep	punct
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 make	nsubj
12	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
13	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sounds	amod
14	cooing	cooing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sounds	compound
15	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 make	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rattles	cc
17	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rattles	amod
18	rattles	rattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sounds	conj
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 clattering	mark
20	clattering	clatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 make	advcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 beaks	nmod:poss
22	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 clattering	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	Real roadrunners	meep meep	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent meep=Topic
2	make	present	rockets = rocket	soft cooing sounds and loud rattles	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product
3	clatter	gerund	rockets = rocket not said here	rockets's beaks	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beak=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:7.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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