--- title: Cartoon piranhas turn a cow into a skeleton in seconds; real red-bel… — Rivers, lakes and ponds · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoon piranhas turn a cow into a skeleton in seconds; real red-bellied piranhas mostly eat insects, fish, worms and plants, feed in groups mainly for safety, and attacks on people are rare and usually just a bite. Who acts: Cartoon piranhas, real bellied piranhas, attacks. 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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 (Cartoon piranhas, real bellied piranhas, attacks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:010-rivers-lakes-and-ponds.lesson:3 # text = Cartoon piranhas turn a cow into a skeleton in seconds; real red-bellied piranhas mostly eat insects, fish, worms and plants, feed in groups mainly for safety, and attacks on people are rare and usually just a bite. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 010-rivers-lakes-and-ponds.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 piranhas piranha NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 skeleton skeleton NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 13 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 bellied belly VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 piranhas piranha NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 19 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 30 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 attacks attack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 38 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 41 usually usually ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 42 just just ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | Cartoon piranhas | a cow | | a skeleton | second | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cow=Theme into skeleton=Trajectory | | 2 | **belly** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | present | real bellied piranhas | insects and fish and worms and plants | | | | mainly, mostly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient | | 4 | **feed** | present | real bellied piranhas *not said here* | | | groups | | for safety | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location | | 5 | **is** | present | attacks on people | | | | | rare *property* | tree rules | 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:biology:010-rivers-lakes-and-ponds.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Rivers, lakes and ponds, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/2/) - next →: [Rivers, lakes and ponds, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/)