More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 2
The trick is to ask what the animal really sees, stores or does: a bull sees red poorly and charges at the moving cape, and a camel's hump is fat, not a water tank.
Who acts: trick, animal, bull, hump · What happens: be, see, store, do, charge, move · To what, where: red, moving cape · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (trick, animal, bull, hump), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 trick | det |
| 2 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 sees | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 animal | det |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sees | nsubj |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 sees | advmod |
| 10 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stores | punct |
| 12 | stores | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sees | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 does | cc |
| 14 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sees | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 red | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bull | det |
| 17 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sees | nsubj |
| 18 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | parataxis |
| 19 | red | red | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sees | obj |
| 20 | poorly | poorly | ADV | _ | 18 sees | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 charges | cc |
| 22 | charges | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sees | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 cape | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cape | det |
| 25 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 cape | amod |
| 26 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 charges | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fat | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 fat | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 camel | det |
| 30 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hump | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 camel | case |
| 32 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fat | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 fat | cop |
| 34 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ask | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 tank | punct |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 tank | advmod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 tank | det |
| 38 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tank | compound |
| 39 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fat | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: ask | present | the trick | ask property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present | the animal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | store | present | the animal not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | present | the animal not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | see | present | a bull | red | poorly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | charge | present | a bull not said here | the moving cape | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cape=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | is | present | a camel's hump | fat property | tree rules |
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:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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