--- title: The second half of the African area is full of animals that cartoons… — The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostr… · tree and pragmatics description: The second half of the African area is full of animals that cartoons get wrong: the hippo is no ballerina, the ostrich does not hide its head, and the hyena is not just a sneaky thief. Who acts: second half, cartoons, hippo, ostrich. 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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 (second half, cartoons, hippo, ostrich), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:0 # text = The second half of the African area is full of animals that cartoons get wrong: the hippo is no ballerina, the ostrich does not hide its head, and the hyena is not just a sneaky thief. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 obj _ _ 13 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hippo hippo NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 21 ballerina ballerina NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hyena hyena NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 36 just just ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 sneaky sneaky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 thief thief NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the second half of the African area | | | | | of animals; full *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | present | cartoons | animals | | | | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | the hippo | no ballerina | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **hide** | present · do-support | the ostrich | ostrich's head | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | the hyena | a sneaky thief | | | | | 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:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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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