--- title: What looks like a horse's backward knee is really its ankle; its kne… — Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you real… · tree and pragmatics description: What looks like a horse's backward knee is really its ankle; its knee is higher up, and artists study anatomy so legs look right. Who acts: ankle, knee, artists, legs. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ankle, knee, artists, legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:012-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see.lesson:16 # text = What looks like a horse's backward knee is really its ankle; its knee is higher up, and artists study anatomy so legs look right. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 012-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 csubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 backward backward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 really really ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 ankle ankle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 conj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 artists artist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 study study VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 anatomy anatomy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 so so SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 27 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | knee's ankle | | | | | like a horse's backward knee | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | | knee's ankle | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | ankle's knee | | | | | high *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **study** | present | artists | anatomy | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anatomy=Topic | | 5 | **look** | present | legs | | | | | right *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:arts:012-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see.lesson:16`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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