--- title: Gravity pulls at once when there is no ground below; the coyote's pa… — Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real c… · tree and pragmatics description: Gravity pulls at once when there is no ground below; the coyote's pause in the air is «cartoon physics», put there so the audience has time to laugh. Who acts: Gravity, ground, audience. 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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 (Gravity, ground, audience), 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:15 # text = Gravity pulls at once when there is no ground below; the coyote's pause in the air is «cartoon physics», put there so the audience has time to laugh. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound 2 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 2 obl _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advcl 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 10 below below ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 coyote coyote NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 pause pause NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 « « ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 physics physics NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 25 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 acl _ _ 26 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 27 so so SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 audience audience NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 31 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25: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 | **pull** | present | Gravity | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | present | no ground | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | « cartoon physics | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **put** | participle | | « cartoon physics *not said here* | | there | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | present | the audience | | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **laugh** | to-infinitive | the audience *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson:15`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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