--- title: Myths spread because they make good stories and people repeat them w… — Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Myths spread because they make good stories and people repeat them without checking; scientists test ideas with careful watching and experiments. Who acts: Myths, people, scientists. 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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 (Myths, people, scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson:16 # text = Myths spread because they make good stories and people repeat them without checking; scientists test ideas with careful watching and experiments. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 because because SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 repeat repeat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 without without SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 checking check VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 test test VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 watching watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:obl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 experiments experiment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present | Myths | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | myths *= myth* | good stories | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product | | 3 | **repeat** | present | people | myths *= myth* | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | | 4 | **check** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **test** | present | scientists | ideas | | | | with careful watching and experiments | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme | 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:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson:16`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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