I was wrong: changing your mind, sentence 9

Bulls cannot tell red from green; it is the movement of a cape that makes them charge.

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

This is a sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» 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, red, cape), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 green	case
7	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 movement	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 movement	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 movement	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 movement	det
12	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 cape	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cape	det
15	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 movement	nmod
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 makes	nsubj
17	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cape	acl:relcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 charge	nsubj
19	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 makes	xcomp
20	.	.	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	is a	present	red	the movement		of a cape	tree rules
3	make	present	a cape				tree rules
4	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:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:9.

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): 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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