--- title: Picture a goat standing on a cliff so steep you could not climb it w… — Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flyi… · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a goat standing on a cliff so steep you could not climb it with your hands: its hooves have soft pads that grip like the soles of trainers and hard edges that dig in. Who acts: you, goat, hooves, soft pads. 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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 (you, goat, hooves, soft pads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:2 # text = Picture a goat standing on a cliff so steep you could not climb it with your hands: its hooves have soft pads that grip like the soles of trainers and hard edges that dig in. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 steep steep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 hooves hoof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 22 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 grip grip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 soles sole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 trainers trainer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl:relcl 36 in in ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a goat | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent goat=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | gerund | a goat *not said here* | | | a cliff | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cliff=Location | | 3 | **not** **climb** | could | you | goat | | | | with your hands | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | goat's hooves | soft pads | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pad=Patient | | 5 | **grip** | present | soft pads | | | | | like the soles of trainers and hard edges | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **dig in** | present | hard edges | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «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:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:2`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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