Pets and farm animals, sentence 3

Other myths are just funny, like the cow that lies down because rain is coming, or the bull that "hates red", when really bulls hardly tell red from green and charge at the cape because it moves.

Who acts: Other myths, cow, rain, bull, bulls · What happens: be, lie down, come, hate, tell, charge · To what, where: red, green, cape · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» 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 (Other myths, cow, rain, bull), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 myths	amod
2	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 funny	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 funny	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 funny	advmod
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cow	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 cow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 funny	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lies	nsubj
11	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cow	acl:relcl
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 lies	advmod
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 coming	mark
14	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 coming	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 coming	aux
16	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 lies	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bull	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 bull	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bull	det
20	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cow	conj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 hates	nsubj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 hates	punct
23	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 bull	acl:relcl
24	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hates	obj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 hates	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 tell	advmod
28	really	really	ADV	_	31 tell	advmod
29	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tell	nsubj
30	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	31 tell	advmod
31	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 funny	advcl
32	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tell	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 green	case
34	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tell	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 charge	cc
36	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 tell	conj
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 cape	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cape	det
39	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 charge	obl
40	because	because	SCONJ	_	42 moves	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 moves	nsubj
42	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 charge	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 funny	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Other myths			like the cow or the bull; funny property	tree rules
2	lie down	present	the cow or the bull			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	present · progressive	rain				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hate in a quote	present	the bull	red			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus
5	tell speech: assert	present	bulls	red	green	hardly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent red=Recipient
6	charge	present	bulls not said here		the cape		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cape=Trajectory
7	move	present	rain				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:007-pets-and-farm-animals.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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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