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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 (Taz, cartoons, real Tasmanian devil, devil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.lesson:3 # text = Taz of Looney Tunes spins like a tornado and eats everything, and cartoons call the koala a bear; a real Tasmanian devil does not spin, though it screeches and eats bones and fur, and the koala is no bear at all. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Taz Taz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 Looney Looney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 Tunes Tunes PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 5 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tornado tornado NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 koala koala NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 Tasmanian tasmanian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 devil devil 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 spin spin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 though though SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 screeches screech VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 34 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 koala koala NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 43 det _ _ 43 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 44 at at ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 43 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **spin** | present | Taz of Looney Tunes | | | | | like a tornado | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | present | Taz of Looney Tunes *not said here* | everything | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | | 3 | **call** | present | cartoons | | the koala | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent koala=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **spin** | present · do-support | a real Tasmanian devil | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **screech** | present | devil | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **eat** | present | devil *not said here* | bones and fur | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 7 | **is a** | present | the koala | no bear | | all | | | 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:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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