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title: And Eeyore is gloomy and cartoon donkeys are stubborn and stupid, bu… — Horses, zebras and donkeys · tree and pragmatics
description: And Eeyore is gloomy and cartoon donkeys are stubborn and stupid, but real donkeys are careful: they stop when they judge something unsafe. Who acts: Eeyore, cartoon donkeys, real donkeys, feet. A sentence of the lesson «Horses, zebras and donkeys» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with
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# Horses, zebras and donkeys, sentence 4

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And Eeyore is gloomy and cartoon donkeys are stubborn and stupid, but real donkeys are careful: they stop when they judge something unsafe.

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**Who acts:** Eeyore, cartoon donkeys, real donkeys, feet · **What happens:** be, stop, judge · **To what, where:** something

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Horses, zebras and donkeys» 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 (Eeyore, cartoon donkeys, real donkeys, feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:025-horses-zebras-and-donkeys.lesson:4
# text = And Eeyore is gloomy and cartoon donkeys are stubborn and stupid, but real donkeys are careful: they stop when they judge something unsafe.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 025-horses-zebras-and-donkeys.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): no change
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Eeyore	Eeyore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	judge	judge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Eeyore |  |  |  |  | gloomy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | cartoon donkeys |  |  |  |  | stubborn *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | cartoon donkeys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | real donkeys |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **stop** | present | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **judge** | present | feet *= foot* | something |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent something=Value |

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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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**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): no change. **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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