--- title: Real dogs cannot talk like Scooby Doo, because their mouths and brai… — Cartoon pets and animal myths put right · tree and pragmatics description: Real dogs cannot talk like Scooby Doo, because their mouths and brains are not built for speech, though Scooby is a real breed, the Great Dane. Who acts: Real dogs, Scooby. 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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 (Real dogs, Scooby), 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:5 # text = Real dogs cannot talk like Scooby Doo, because their mouths and brains are not built for speech, though Scooby is a real breed, the Great Dane. # 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 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 Scooby Scooby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Doo Doo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 21 though though SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 22 Scooby Scooby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 breed breed NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 Dane dane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **talk** | can | Real dogs | | | | | like Scooby Doo | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **build** | present · passive | | dogs's mouths and brains | | | | for speech | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for speech=Asset | | 3 | **is a** | present | Scooby | a real breed | | | | | 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. 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