--- title: Cartoons love animal tricks: a bull goes mad at a red cape, a camel… — More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcup… · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons love animal tricks: a bull goes mad at a red cape, a camel unscrews its hump and pours out water, a porcupine fires quills like arrows, and Tom the cat falls off the roof and always lands neatly on his feet. Who acts: Cartoons, bull, camel, porcupine. 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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 (Cartoons, bull, camel, porcupine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:0 # text = Cartoons love animal tricks: a bull goes mad at a red cape, a camel unscrews its hump and pours out water, a porcupine fires quills like arrows, and Tom the cat falls off the roof and always lands neatly on his feet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.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 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 cape cape NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 unscrews unscrew VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 hump hump NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 pours pour VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 porcupine porcupine NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 fires fire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 28 quills quill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 arrows arrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 36 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 37 off off ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 42 advmod _ _ 42 lands land VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 43 neatly neatly ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | present | Cartoons | animal tricks | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus | | 2 | **go** | present | a bull | | | | | mad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **unscrew** | present | a camel | camel's hump | | | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hump=Patient | | 4 | **pour out** | present | a camel *not said here* | water | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 5 | **fire** | present | a porcupine | quills | | | | like arrows | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quill=Theme | | 6 | **fall off** | present | Tom | the roof | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient roof=Extent | | 7 | **land** | present | Tom *not said here* | | | Tom's feet | | always, neatly *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=Destination | 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:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:0`. **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: [Myth check: are bats blind?, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/17/) - next →: [More animal myths: red rags, camel hum…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/)