More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 0

Cartoons love animal tricks: a bull goes mad at a red cape, a camel unscrews its hump and pours out water, a porcupine fires quills like arrows, and Tom the cat falls off the roof and always lands neatly on his feet.

Who acts: Cartoons, bull, camel, porcupine, Tom · What happens: love, go, unscrew, pour out, fire, fall off · To what, where: animal tricks, hump, water, quills, roof, feet

This is a sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» 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 (Cartoons, bull, camel, porcupine), 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	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricks	compound
4	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 goes	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bull	det
7	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	nsubj
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 love	conj
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 goes	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 cape	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cape	det
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cape	amod
13	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mad	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 unscrews	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 camel	det
16	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 unscrews	nsubj
17	unscrews	unscrew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 love	parataxis
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hump	nmod:poss
19	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 unscrews	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pours	cc
21	pours	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 unscrews	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 pours	compound:prt
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pours	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fires	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 porcupine	det
26	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fires	nsubj
27	fires	fire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 unscrews	conj
28	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fires	obj
29	like	like	ADP	_	30 arrows	case
30	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 quills	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 falls	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 falls	cc
33	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 falls	nsubj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cat	det
35	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Tom	appos
36	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 unscrews	conj
37	off	off	ADP	_	39 roof	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 roof	det
39	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 falls	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 lands	cc
41	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	42 lands	advmod
42	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 falls	conj
43	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	42 lands	advmod
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 feet	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 feet	nmod:poss
46	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 lands	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 love	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	present	Cartoons	animal tricks			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus
2	go	present	a bull			mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	unscrew	present	a camel	camel's hump			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hump=Patient
4	pour out	present	a camel not said here	water			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
5	fire	present	a porcupine	quills		like arrows	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quill=Theme
6	fall off	present	Tom	the roof			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient roof=Extent
7	land	present	Tom not said here		Tom's feet	always, neatly property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=Destination

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:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:0.

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): no change. 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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