--- title: Cartoons show snakes crushing bones like a garden hose tied in knots… — Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans… · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons show snakes crushing bones like a garden hose tied in knots; a real anaconda squeezes until the prey's blood stops flowing, and it is a shy animal that mostly avoids people. Who acts: Cartoons, snakes, real anaconda, blood. 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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, snakes, real anaconda, blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:3 # text = Cartoons show snakes crushing bones like a garden hose tied in knots; a real anaconda squeezes until the prey's blood stops flowing, and it is a shy animal that mostly avoids people. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 crushing crush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 hose hose NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 knots knot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod 16 anaconda anaconda NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound 17 squeezes squeeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 until until SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 24 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 33 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 avoids avoid VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Cartoons | | snakes | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent snake=Recipient | | 2 | **crush** | gerund | snakes *not said here* | bones | | | | like a garden hose | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 3 | **tie** | participle | | a garden hose *not said here* | | knots | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **squeeze** | present | a real anaconda | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stop** | present | the prey's blood | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **flow** | gerund | the prey's blood *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | present | anaconda | a shy animal | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **avoid** | present | a shy animal | people | | | | mostly *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent people=Location | 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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