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title: Coyote never catches him, however many ACME rockets he buys. — Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Coyote never catches him, however many ACME rockets he buys. Who acts: Coyote, Runner. A sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 1

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Coyote never catches him, however many ACME rockets he buys.

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**Who acts:** Coyote, Runner · **What happens:** not catch, buy · **To what, where:** many ACME rockets, Runner

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coyote, Runner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson:1
# text = Coyote never catches him, however many ACME rockets he buys.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Coyote	coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	ACME	acme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	rockets	rocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **catch** | present | Coyote | many ACME rockets | Runner |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary rocket=Theme |
| 2 | **buy** | present | Runner | many ACME rockets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocket=Theme |

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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.

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**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:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson:1`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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