--- title: Cattle cannot see red the way we do, and a bull charges a matador's… — Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth · tree and pragmatics description: Cattle cannot see red the way we do, and a bull charges a matador's cape (the cloth a bullfighter waves) because it moves, not because it is red. Who acts: Cattle, we, bull, bullfighter. 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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 (Cattle, we, bull, bullfighter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth.lesson:10 # text = Cattle cannot see red the way we do, and a bull charges a matador's cape (the cloth a bullfighter waves) because it moves, not because it is red. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Cattle cattle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 charges charge VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 matador matador NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 cape cape NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bullfighter bullfighter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 waves wave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:conj 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | can | Cattle | the way | | | | red *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **do** | present | we | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | | 3 | **charge** | present | a bull | a matador's cape | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cape=Theme | | 4 | **wave** | present | a bullfighter | the cloth | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient | | 5 | **move** | present | bullfighter | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **is** | present | bullfighter | | | | | red *property* | tree rules | 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:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth.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): 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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