--- title: But cartoons have spread tricks that animals never do: ostriches do… — Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, droppi… · tree and pragmatics description: But cartoons have spread tricks that animals never do: ostriches do not bury their heads, a chameleon cannot turn tartan, and a camel's hump is not a water tank. Who acts: cartoons, animals, ostriches, chameleon. 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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 (cartoons, animals, ostriches, chameleon), 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:2 # text = But cartoons have spread tricks that animals never do: ostriches do not bury their heads, a chameleon cannot turn tartan, and a camel's hump is not a water tank. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 obj _ _ 7 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 ostriches ostrich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 chameleon chameleon NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 23 tartan tartan NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 24 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 hump hump NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 35 . . 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 | **spread** | present · perfect | cartoons | tricks | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trick=Theme | | 2 | **not** **do** | present | animals | tricks | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **bury** | present · do-support | ostriches | animals's heads | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 4 | **not** **turn** | can | a chameleon | tartan | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tartan=Theme | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | a camel's hump | a water tank | | | | | 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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