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title: Bulls see red poorly and charge at a matador's cape (the cloth a bul… — Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, ele… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bulls see red poorly and charge at a matador's cape (the cloth a bullfighter waves) because it moves, whatever its colour. Who acts: Bulls, bullfighter. A sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» of the biology course of Mova's prim
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# Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 10

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Bulls see red poorly and charge at a matador's cape (the cloth a bullfighter waves) because it moves, whatever its colour.

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**Who acts:** Bulls, bullfighter · **What happens:** see, charge, wave, move · **To what, where:** red, cape, cloth, whatever

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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 (Bulls, bullfighter), 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:10
# text = Bulls see red poorly and charge at a matador's cape (the cloth a bullfighter waves) because it moves, whatever its colour.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
3	red	red	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	charge	charge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	matador	matador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bullfighter	bullfighter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	waves	wave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Bulls | red |  |  |  | poorly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus |
| 2 | **charge** | present | Bulls *not said here* |  |  | a matador's cape |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cape=Trajectory |
| 3 | **wave** | present | a bullfighter | the cloth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient |
| 4 | **move** | present | bullfighter | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme whatever=Result |

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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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**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:10`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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