--- title: The trick is to ask what the animal really sees, stores or does: a b… — More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcup… · tree and pragmatics description: The trick is to ask what the animal really sees, stores or does: a bull sees red poorly and charges at the moving cape, and a camel's hump is fat, not a water tank. Who acts: trick, animal, bull, hump. 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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 (trick, animal, bull, hump), 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:2 # text = The trick is to ask what the animal really sees, stores or does: a bull sees red poorly and charges at the moving cape, and a camel's hump is fat, not a water tank. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 obj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 really really ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 stores store VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 red red NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 poorly poorly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 charges charge VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 cape cape NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 hump hump NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *speech: ask* | present | the trick | | | | | ask *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | present | the animal | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 3 | **store** | present | the animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** | present | the animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **see** | present | a bull | red | | | | poorly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus | | 6 | **charge** | present | a bull *not said here* | | | the moving cape | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cape=Trajectory | | 7 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is** | present | a camel's hump | | | | | fat *property* | tree rules | 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. 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