Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground, sentence 14

Bulls cannot tell red from green; in a bullfight, where a matador waves a cape at the bull, it is the cape's movement that makes them charge.

Who acts: Bulls, matador, movement · What happens: not tell, wave, be, make, charge · To what, where: red, green, cape, movement, bullfight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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, matador, movement), 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	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tell	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bullfight	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bullfight	det
11	bullfight	bullfight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 movement	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bullfight	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 waves	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 matador	det
15	matador	matador	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waves	nsubj
16	waves	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bullfight	acl:relcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cape	det
18	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waves	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 bull	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bull	det
21	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waves	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 movement	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 movement	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 movement	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cape	det
26	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 movement	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 cape	case
28	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	parataxis
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 makes	nsubj
30	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 movement	acl:relcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 charge	nsubj
32	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 makes	xcomp
33	.	.	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	wave	present	a matador	a cape		at the bull	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cape=Patient
3	is a	present	matador	the cape's movement	a bullfight		tree rules
4	make	present	the cape's movement				tree rules
5	charge	infinitive	Bulls = bull				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.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, 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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