--- title: And the biggest cartoon fib of all is the cliff: nothing hangs in th… — Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real c… · tree and pragmatics description: And the biggest cartoon fib of all is the cliff: nothing hangs in the air before it falls, because gravity pulls the moment there is no ground below you. Who acts: biggest cartoon fib, nothing, fib, gravity. 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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 (biggest cartoon fib, nothing, fib, gravity), 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:5 # text = And the biggest cartoon fib of all is the cliff: nothing hangs in the air before it falls, because gravity pulls the moment there is no ground below you. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 4 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 fib fib NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 12 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 13 nsubj _ _ 13 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nmod 17 before before SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advcl 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 27 expl _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 29 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 30 below below ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **is** | present | the biggest cartoon fib all | | | | | of the cliff | tree rules | | 2 | **hang** | present | nothing | | | the air | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | | 3 | **fall** | present | fib | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pull** | present | gravity | | | | moment | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=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:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson:5`. **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, R7-rel-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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