Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?, sentence 14

Bulls cannot tell red from green: they charge the moving cape, not its colour, and a blue cape waved the same way would work too; never go into a field with a bull.

Who acts: Bulls, blue cape, same way · What happens: not tell, charge, wave, work, not go · To what, where: red, green, moving cape, same way, field · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?» 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, blue cape, same way), 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 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tell	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 green	case
7	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 charge	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 charge	nsubj
10	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cape	det
12	moving	moving	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cape	compound
13	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 charge	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 colour	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 colour	advmod
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 colour	nmod:poss
17	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cape	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waved	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 waved	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cape	det
21	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cape	amod
22	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 waved	nsubj
23	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 charge	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 way	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 way	amod
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 waved	obj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 work	aux
28	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 way	acl
29	too	too	ADV	_	28 work	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 go	punct
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 go	advmod
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	parataxis
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 field	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 field	det
35	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 go	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 bull	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bull	det
38	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 go	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	Bulls	red	green		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent red=Recipient
2	charge	present	Bulls = bull	the moving cape and green's colour			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cape=Theme
3	wave	past	a blue cape	the same way			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
4	work	would	the same way not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not go	infinitive			a field	with a bull	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_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:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.lesson:14.

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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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