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description: Bulls are not angered by red; cattle see red poorly and charge at the cape because it moves, and in tests they charged moving capes of any colour. Who acts: cattle, cape. A sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» of the biology cour
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# More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 4

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Bulls are not angered by red; cattle see red poorly and charge at the cape because it moves, and in tests they charged moving capes of any colour.

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**Who acts:** cattle, cape · **What happens:** not anger, see, charge, move · **To what, where:** Bulls, red, cape, moving capes, tests

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This is a sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cattle, cape), 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:4
# text = Bulls are not angered by red; cattle see red poorly and charge at the cape because it moves, and in tests they charged moving capes of any colour.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	angered	anger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	charge	charge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	amod	_	_
27	capes	cape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **anger** | present · passive |  | Bulls |  |  |  | by red | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | cattle | red |  |  |  | poorly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus |
| 3 | **charge** | present | cattle *not said here* |  |  | the cape |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cape=Trajectory |
| 4 | **move** | present | cape |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **charge** | past | cattle | moving capes of any colour |  | tests |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cape=Theme |
| 6 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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): R8-pos-agree ×3. **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/).

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