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title: Bulls cannot see red well; it is the moving cape that makes a bull c… — Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat · tree and pragmatics
description: Bulls cannot see red well; it is the moving cape that makes a bull charge, and a waved blue cape would work just the same. Who acts: Bulls, goat, moving cape, waved blue cape. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat, sentence 18

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Bulls cannot see red well; it is the moving cape that makes a bull charge, and a waved blue cape would work just the same.

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**Who acts:** Bulls, goat, moving cape, waved blue cape · **What happens:** not see, be, make, wave, work · **To what, where:** moving cape, bull charge, same

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» 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 (Bulls, goat, moving cape, waved blue cape), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat.lesson:18
# text = Bulls cannot see red well; it is the moving cape that makes a bull charge, and a waved blue cape would work just the same.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat.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	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	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	red	red	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	moving	moving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	waved	wave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
22	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **not** **see** | can | Bulls |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | goat | the moving cape |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | the moving cape | a bull charge |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset charge=Product |
| 4 | **wave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **work** | would | a waved blue cape | the same |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent same=Material |

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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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