Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 4

To put a myth right, ask what the animal really sees, eats, hears or needs, and look for the true thing hiding inside the story.

Who acts: you, animal, true thing · What happens: put, ask, see, eat, hear, need · To what, where: myth, story · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, animal, true thing), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 put	mark
2	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ask	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	right	right	ADV	_	2 put	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct
7	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 sees	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animal	det
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sees	nsubj
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 sees	advmod
12	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ask	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eats	punct
14	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sees	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hears	punct
16	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sees	conj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 needs	cc
18	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sees	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 look	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 look	cc
21	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 ask	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 thing	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 thing	det
24	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thing	amod
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 look	obl
26	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 thing	acl
27	inside	inside	ADP	_	29 story	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 story	det
29	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hiding	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	to-infinitive	you not said here	a myth		right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent myth=Goal
2	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	present	the animal				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	eat	present	the animal not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear	present	the animal not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	need	present	the animal not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	look	infinitive	you not said here			for the true thing	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme
8	hide	gerund	the true thing not said here		the story		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside story=Location

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: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): 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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