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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 (Foxes, crows, puzzles), 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:17 # text = Foxes are clever, but crows, ravens and parrots solve puzzles that need several steps; cartoon personalities are made up. # 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 6 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 ravens raven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 11 solve solve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 18 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 personalities personality NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Foxes | | | | | clever *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **solve** | present | crows and ravens and parrots | puzzles | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic | | 3 | **need** | present | puzzles | several steps | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot step=Theme | | 4 | **make up** | present · passive | | cartoon personalities | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | 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:17`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right/16/) - next →: [Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right/)