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description: Cartoons often mix up homes, putting a polar bear and a penguin on the same iceberg, so a good quiz player always asks: north or south, land or sea, day or night? Who acts: Cartoons, good quiz player. A sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals» of the biology course
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# The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals, sentence 4

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Cartoons often mix up homes, putting a polar bear and a penguin on the same iceberg, so a good quiz player always asks: north or south, land or sea, day or night?

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**Who acts:** Cartoons, good quiz player · **What happens:** mix up, put, ask · **To what, where:** homes, polar bear, same iceberg

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals» 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 (Cartoons, good quiz player), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:4
# text = Cartoons often mix up homes, putting a polar bear and a penguin on the same iceberg, so a good quiz player always asks: north or south, land or sea, day or night?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.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
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	mix	mix	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	penguin	penguin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	iceberg	iceberg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	quiz	quiz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	25	advmod	_	_
25	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
27	north	north	ADV	RB	_	25	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	south	south	ADV	RB	_	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:appos
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **mix up** | present | Cartoons | homes |  |  |  | often *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | gerund | Cartoons *not said here* | a polar bear and a penguin |  | the same iceberg |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme on iceberg=Destination |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a good quiz player |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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