More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 4

Bulls are not angered by red; cattle see red poorly and charge at the cape because it moves, and in tests they charged moving capes of any colour.

Who acts: cattle, cape · What happens: not anger, see, charge, move · To what, where: Bulls, red, cape, moving capes, tests

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 (cattle, cape), 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	Bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 angered	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 angered	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 angered	advmod
4	angered	anger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 red	case
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 angered	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
8	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 see	nsubj
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 angered	parataxis
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 see	obj
11	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	9 see	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 charge	cc
13	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 see	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 cape	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cape	det
16	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 charge	obl
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 moves	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 moves	nsubj
19	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 charge	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 charged	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 charged	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 tests	case
23	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 charged	obl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 charged	nsubj
25	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 moves	conj
26	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 capes	amod
27	capes	cape	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 charged	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 colour	case
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 colour	det
30	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 capes	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 angered	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not anger	present · passive		Bulls		by red	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	see	infinitive	cattle	red		poorly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus
3	charge	present	cattle not said here		the cape		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cape=Trajectory
4	move	present	cape				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	charge	past	cattle	moving capes of any colour	tests		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cape=Theme
6	move	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:4.

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): R8-pos-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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