Cartoon pets and animal myths put right, sentence 3

Behind almost every cartoon animal there is a real animal that is just as interesting, and a scientist's job is to sort the true bits from the funny bits.

Who acts: real animal, job, scientist · What happens: be, job · To what, where: funny bits

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» 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 (real animal, job, scientist), 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	Behind	behind	ADP	_	5 animal	case
2	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 animal	advmod
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 animal	det
4	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animal	compound
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	obl
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 is	expl
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 animal	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 animal	amod
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	nsubj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 interesting	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 interesting	cop
13	just	just	ADV	_	15 interesting	advmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 interesting	advmod
15	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 animal	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sort	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sort	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 scientist	det
19	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 job	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 scientist	case
21	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sort	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sort	cop
23	to	to	PART	_	24 sort	mark
24	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 is	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bits	det
26	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bits	amod
27	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sort	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 bits	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bits	det
30	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bits	amod
31	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sort	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a real animal	there	behind every cartoon animal	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind animal=Location
2	is	present	a real animal		interesting property	tree rules
3	is	present	a scientist's job	the funny bits	sort property	tree rules
4	job		a scientist			nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:3.

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): 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.

See the release 0.4.

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