--- title: Cartoons and old sayings are full of animals doing things real anima… — Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, ele… · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons and old sayings are full of animals doing things real animals never do: an elephant leaps onto a chair at the sight of a mouse, an ostrich hides its head in the sand, a snake hypnotises a rabbit with its stare. Who acts: Cartoons, animals, real animals, elephant. 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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, animals, real animals, elephant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:0 # text = Cartoons and old sayings are full of animals doing things real animals never do: an elephant leaps onto a chair at the sight of a mouse, an ostrich hides its head in the sand, a snake hypnotises a rabbit with its stare. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.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 6 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 sayings saying NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl 15 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 leaps leap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 19 onto onto ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 hypnotises hypnotise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 stare stare NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Cartoons and old sayings | | | | | of animals; full *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | gerund | animals *not said here* | things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **do** | present | real animals | things *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 4 | **leap** | present | a elephant | | | a chair | | at the sight of a mouse | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto chair=Trajectory | | 5 | **hide** | present | a ostrich | ostrich's head | | the sand | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Patient in sand=Location | | 6 | **hypnotise** | present | a snake | a rabbit | | | | with ostrich's stare | tree rules | | 7 | **sight** | | | a mouse | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **stare** | | ostrich | | | | | | nom stare «act intransitive»: poss=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:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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