--- title: Some people think the oryx, seen from the side with its two horns in… — Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to… · tree and pragmatics description: Some people think the oryx, seen from the side with its two horns in line, may have helped give rise to the unicorn legend, but no one can be sure. Who acts: people, oryx, one. 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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 (people, oryx, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:114-back-to-the-wild.lesson:12 # text = Some people think the oryx, seen from the side with its two horns in line, may have helped give rise to the unicorn legend, but no one can be sure. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 114-back-to-the-wild.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 ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 oryx oryx NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 18 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux _ _ 20 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 21 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 22 rise rise NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 unicorn unicorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 33 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some people | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **see** | participle | | the oryx *not said here* | | the side | | with side's two horns in line | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **help** | may · perfect | the oryx | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **give** | infinitive | the oryx *not said here* | rise | the unicorn legend | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rise=Theme to legend=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | can | no one | | | | | sure *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:114-back-to-the-wild.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 ×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: [Back to the wild: animals that zoos re…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/11/) - next →: [Back to the wild: animals that zoos re…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/)