--- title: Roadrunners eat lizards, insects, scorpions, mice, small birds and e… — Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real c… · tree and pragmatics description: Roadrunners eat lizards, insects, scorpions, mice, small birds and even snakes, including young rattlesnakes, which a roadrunner kills by grabbing and whacking their heads against a rock. Who acts: Roadrunners, roadrunner. 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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 (Roadrunners, roadrunner), 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:8 # text = Roadrunners eat lizards, insects, scorpions, mice, small birds and even snakes, including young rattlesnakes, which a roadrunner kills by grabbing and whacking their heads against a rock. # 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): no change 1 Roadrunners roadrunner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 including include ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 rattlesnakes rattlesnake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 obj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 roadrunner roadrunner NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 25 by by SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 grabbing grab VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 whacking whack VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 against against ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **eat** | present | Roadrunners | lizards and insects and scorpions and mice and small birds and snakes and young rattlesnakes | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lizard=Patient | | 2 | **kill** | present | a roadrunner | young rattlesnakes | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 3 | **grab** | gerund | Roadrunners *not said here* | | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **whack** | gerund | Roadrunners *not said here* | rattlesnakes's heads | | | | against a rock | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument against rock=Patient | 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:8`. **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): no change. **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: [Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/7/) - next →: [Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/)