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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, huge elephant, elephant, good evidence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth.lesson:3 # text = Think of the cartoon where a huge elephant jumps on a chair, screaming at a tiny mouse: it is funny, but there is no good evidence that real elephants fear mice. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 screaming scream VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis 15 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 26 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 28 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel 31 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 fear fear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 34 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of the cartoon | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **jump** | present | a huge elephant | | | a chair | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chair=Trajectory | | 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | a huge elephant *not said here* | | | | | at a tiny mouse | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mouse=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | elephant | | | | | funny *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | present | no good evidence | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fear** | present | real elephants | mice | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus | 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:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth.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): R5-strong ×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. 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