--- title: In cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Tom gets flattened like a pancake or… — The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin · tree and pragmatics description: In cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Tom gets flattened like a pancake or shatters into pieces and pops back into shape a second later; real bones can break, and a broken bone needs a doctor, a cast and weeks of healing. Who acts: real bones, broken bone. 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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 bones, broken bone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.lesson:4 # text = In cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Tom gets flattened like a pancake or shatters into pieces and pops back into shape a second later; real bones can break, and a broken bone needs a doctor, a cast and weeks of healing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.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 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 Jerry Jerry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 flattened flatten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pancake pancake NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 shatters shatter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 pops pop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl:unmarked 25 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 27 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 broken broken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 cast cast NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 healing healing NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flatten** | present · passive | | Tom | | cartoons like Tom and Jerry | | like a pancake | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **shatter** | present | | | | | | into pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result | | 3 | **pop back** | present | | | | | | into shape *result*; late *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into shape=Result | | 4 | **break** | can | real bones | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **need** | present | a broken bone | a doctor | | | | a cast and weeks of healing *obl* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme | 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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