--- title: The first Mickey Mouse, from the 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie, beca… — Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, givi… · tree and pragmatics description: The first Mickey Mouse, from the 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie, became free for anyone to use in the United States in 2024, but later Mickeys and Disney's brand are still owned. Who acts: first Mickey Mouse, anyone, Disney. 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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 (first Mickey Mouse, anyone, Disney), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.lesson:12 # text = The first Mickey Mouse, from the 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie, became free for anyone to use in the United States in 2024, but later Mickeys and Disney's brand are still owned. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.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): R5-strong ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 3 Mickey mickey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 8 1928 1928 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:desc _ _ 10 Steamboat Steamboat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 11 Willie Willie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 21 United United PROPN NNP _ 18 obl _ _ 22 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 flat _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 27 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod 28 Mickeys mickey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 Disney Disney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 brand brand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 34 still still ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 owned own VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | the first Mickey Mouse | | | | | free *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **use** | to-infinitive | anyone | | | United | | in 2024 | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **own** | present · passive | | Mickeys and Disney's brand | | | still | late *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **brand** | | Disney | | | | | | nom brand «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.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): R5-strong ×3. **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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