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title: Bulls cannot see red well; a bull charges at the movement of the cap… — Cartoon pets and animal myths put right · tree and pragmatics
description: Bulls cannot see red well; a bull charges at the movement of the cape, and red is just the traditional colour. Who acts: Bulls, bull, red. A sentence of the lesson «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Cartoon pets and animal myths put right, sentence 13

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Bulls cannot see red well; a bull charges at the movement of the cape, and red is just the traditional colour.

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**Who acts:** Bulls, bull, red · **What happens:** not see, charge, be, move · **To what, where:** red, movement, traditional colour, cape

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» 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, bull, red), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:13
# text = Bulls cannot see red well; a bull charges at the movement of the cape, and red is just the traditional colour.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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	NOUN	NN	_	4	obj	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	charges	charge	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	red	red	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | can | Bulls | red |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus |
| 2 | **charge** | present | a bull |  |  | the movement of the cape |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at movement=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is a** | present | red | the traditional colour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **move** |  |  | the cape |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:13`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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