--- title: In the cartoon Looney Tunes, Taz the Tasmanian devil spins like a to… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics description: In the cartoon Looney Tunes, Taz the Tasmanian devil spins like a tornado and eats everything; the real devil is the size of a small dog, does not spin, but does screech and squabble loudly over a dead wallaby. Who acts: Taz, real devil. 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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 (Taz, real devil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.lesson:1 # text = In the cartoon Looney Tunes, Taz the Tasmanian devil spins like a tornado and eats everything; the real devil is the size of a small dog, does not spin, but does screech and squabble loudly over a dead wallaby. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 Looney Looney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 Tunes tune NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Taz Taz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Tasmanian Tasmanian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 devil Devil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 11 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 tornado tornado NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 devil devil NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 parataxis _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 spin spin VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=32:punct 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 screech screech VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 squabble squabble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 39 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:advmod 40 over over ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 wallaby wallaby NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spin** | present | Taz | | | the cartoon Looney Tunes | | like a tornado | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in tune=Trajectory | | 2 | **eat** | present | Taz *not said here* | everything | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | the real devil | the size | | | | of a small dog | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **spin** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **screech** | present · do-support | | | | a dead wallaby | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wallaby=Location | | 6 | **squabble** | infinitive | | | | | | loudly *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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