Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 10

Bulls see red poorly and charge at a matador's cape (the cloth a bullfighter waves) because it moves, whatever its colour.

Who acts: Bulls, bullfighter · What happens: see, charge, wave, move · To what, where: red, cape, cloth, whatever

This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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 (Bulls, bullfighter), 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	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	red	red	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
4	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	2 see	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 charge	cc
6	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	11 cape	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 matador	det
9	matador	matador	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cape	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 matador	case
11	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 charge	obl
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 cloth	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cloth	det
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cape	appos
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bullfighter	det
16	bullfighter	bullfighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 waves	nsubj
17	waves	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cloth	acl:relcl
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 cloth	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 moves	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 moves	nsubj
21	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 charge	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 moves	punct
23	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 moves	obj
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 colour	nmod:poss
25	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 whatever	nsubj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	Bulls	red		poorly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus
2	charge	present	Bulls not said here		a matador's cape		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cape=Trajectory
3	wave	present	a bullfighter	the cloth not said here			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient
4	move	present	bullfighter	whatever			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme whatever=Result

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:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:10.

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 ×2. 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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