--- title: Each of these has a grain of truth wrapped in a mistake: the bull re… — More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcup… · tree and pragmatics description: Each of these has a grain of truth wrapped in a mistake: the bull really charges, the camel's hump really helps in the desert, quills really hurt, and cats really twist in the air. Who acts: Each, bull, hump, quills. 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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 (Each, bull, hump, quills), 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:1 # text = Each of these has a grain of truth wrapped in a mistake: the bull really charges, the camel's hump really helps in the desert, quills really hurt, and cats really twist in the air. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 1 nmod _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 really really ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 charges charge VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=17:punct 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 hump hump NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 really really ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 29 quills quill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 really really ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 hurt hurt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 35 really really ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 twist twist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Each | a grain of truth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient | | 2 | **wrap** | participle | | a grain of truth *not said here* | | a mistake | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mistake=Destination | | 3 | **charge** | present | the bull | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **help** | present | the camel's hump | | | the desert | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hurt** | present | quills | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **twist** | present | cats | | | the air | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | 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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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