--- title: Some animals look as if a child drew them for a joke: a bird with a… — Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles… · tree and pragmatics description: Some animals look as if a child drew them for a joke: a bird with a shoe for a beak, a mole with a pink star on its nose, an antelope with a little trunk, a walking pine cone and a fish that turns into slime. Who acts: animals, child, fish. 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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 (animals, child, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:0 # text = Some animals look as if a child drew them for a joke: a bird with a shoe for a beak, a mole with a pink star on its nose, an antelope with a little trunk, a walking pine cone and a fish that turns into slime. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.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 ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 antelope antelope NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 walking walking ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:amod 42 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 cone cone NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 47 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 48 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:acl:relcl 49 into into ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | some animals | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **draw** | past | a child | animals *= animal* | | | | for a joke and a bird with a shoe for a beak and a mole with a pink star on child's nose and a antelope with a little trunk and a walking pine cone and a fish | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Result for joke=Beneficiary | | 3 | **turn** | present | a fish | | | slime | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into slime=Trajectory | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:0`. **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 ×1. **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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