--- title: To put a myth right, ask what the animal really sees, eats, hears or… — Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, ele… · tree and pragmatics description: To put a myth right, ask what the animal really sees, eats, hears or needs, and look for the true thing hiding inside the story. Who acts: you, animal, true thing. 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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, animal, true thing), 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:4 # text = To put a myth right, ask what the animal really sees, eats, hears or needs, and look for the true thing hiding inside the story. # 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): no change 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 right right ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 obj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 really really ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 hiding hide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 27 inside inside ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a myth | | | | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent myth=Goal | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **see** | present | the animal | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 4 | **eat** | present | the animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hear** | present | the animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **need** | present | the animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | for the true thing | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme | | 8 | **hide** | gerund | the true thing *not said here* | | | the story | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside story=Location | 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. 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