--- title: Think of a toolbox: a strange-looking tool is strange because it doe… — Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles… · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a toolbox: a strange-looking tool is strange because it does one job very well, and these animals are the same. Who acts: you, looking tool, tool, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» of the biology course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-n…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish/) / 2 # Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 2 Think of a toolbox: a strange-looking tool is strange because it does one job very well, and these animals are the same. **Who acts:** you, looking tool, tool, animals · **What happens:** think, look, be, do · **To what, where:** one job This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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 (you, looking tool, tool, animals), 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:2 # text = Think of a toolbox: a strange-looking tool is strange because it does one job very well, and these animals are the same. # 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): no change 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 toolbox toolbox NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 10 tool tool NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a toolbox | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | a looking tool | | | | | strange *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | present | tool | one job | | | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | present | this animals | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | 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:2`. **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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