--- title: Bulls cannot tell red from green: they charge the moving cape, not i… — Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, droppi… · tree and pragmatics description: Bulls cannot tell red from green: they charge the moving cape, not its colour, and a blue cape waved the same way would work too; never go into a field with a bull. Who acts: Bulls, blue cape, same way. 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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 (Bulls, blue cape, same way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.lesson:14 # text = Bulls cannot tell red from green: they charge the moving cape, not its colour, and a blue cape waved the same way would work too; never go into a field with a bull. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 green green NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 charge charge VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 moving moving NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 cape cape NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 cape cape NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 waved wave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl _ _ 29 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 33 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:nmod 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | Bulls | red | | green | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent red=Recipient | | 2 | **charge** | present | Bulls *= bull* | the moving cape and green's colour | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cape=Theme | | 3 | **wave** | past | a blue cape | the same way | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | | 4 | **work** | would | the same way *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **go** | infinitive | | | | a field | | with a bull | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial\_Location | 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:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.lesson:14`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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