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title: Behind almost every cartoon animal there is a real animal that is ju… — Cartoon pets and animal myths put right · tree and pragmatics
description: Behind almost every cartoon animal there is a real animal that is just as interesting, and a scientist's job is to sort the true bits from the funny bits. Who acts: real animal, job, scientist. A sentence of the lesson «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» of the biology course of Mova's primary
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# Cartoon pets and animal myths put right, sentence 3

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Behind almost every cartoon animal there is a real animal that is just as interesting, and a scientist's job is to sort the true bits from the funny bits.

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**Who acts:** real animal, job, scientist · **What happens:** be, job · **To what, where:** funny bits

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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 (real animal, job, scientist), 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:3
# text = Behind almost every cartoon animal there is a real animal that is just as interesting, and a scientist's job is to sort the true bits from the funny bits.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
15	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	scientist	scientist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	sort	sort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **be** | present | a real animal |  |  | there |  | behind every cartoon animal | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind animal=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | a real animal |  |  |  |  | interesting *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | a scientist's job |  |  | the funny bits |  | sort *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **job** |  | a scientist |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:3`.

**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 ×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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