Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 12

Bulls cannot see red well; it is the movement of the matador's cape that makes them charge, and a waving towel of any colour would do the same.

Who acts: Bulls, person, movement, waving towel · What happens: not see, be, make, charge, wave, do · To what, where: movement, Bulls, same

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» 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, person, movement, waving towel), 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 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	red	red	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 red	fixed
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 movement	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 movement	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 movement	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 movement	det
11	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 cape	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 matador	det
14	matador	matador	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cape	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 matador	case
16	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 movement	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 makes	nsubj
18	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 movement	acl:relcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 makes	obj
20	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 makes	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 do	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 do	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 towel	det
24	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 towel	amod
25	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 do	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 colour	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 colour	det
28	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 towel	nmod
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 do	aux
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 makes	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 same	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 do	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Bulls		red property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	person	the movement	of the matador's cape	tree rules
3	make	present	the movement	Bulls = bull		tree rules
4	charge	infinitive	Bulls = bull not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wave	gerund				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do	would	a waving towel of any colour	the same		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality

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:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:12.

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.

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