--- title: Fossils, tests and careful counting beat cartoons and myths, from th… — The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evoluti… · tree and pragmatics description: Fossils, tests and careful counting beat cartoons and myths, from the Flintstones riding dinosaurs to elephants scared of mice. Who acts: Fossils, Flintstones. 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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 (Fossils, Flintstones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:9 # text = Fossils, tests and careful counting beat cartoons and myths, from the Flintstones riding dinosaurs to elephants scared of mice. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.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 Fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 counting count NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 7 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 from from SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Flintstones flintstone PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 acl _ _ 16 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 scared scare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beat** | present | Fossils and tests and careful counting | cartoons and myths | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cartoon=Theme | | 2 | **ride** | gerund | the Flintstones | dinosaurs | | | | to elephants | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Theme to elephant=Trajectory | | 3 | **scare** | participle | | elephants *not said here* | | | | of mice | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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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