--- title: Looks can also fool us: the shoebill looks like a stork and a pangol… — Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles… · tree and pragmatics description: Looks can also fool us: the shoebill looks like a stork and a pangolin looks like a reptile, but scientists check relatives by genes and bodies, not by looks. Who acts: Looks, shoebill, pangolin, scientists. 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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 (Looks, shoebill, pangolin, scientists), 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:3 # text = Looks can also fool us: the shoebill looks like a stork and a pangolin looks like a reptile, but scientists check relatives by genes and bodies, not by looks. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Looks look NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 fool fool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 shoebill shoebill NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pangolin pangolin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 reptile reptile NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 24 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 genes gene NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 looks look NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fool** | can | Looks | us | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | | 2 | **look** | present | the shoebill | | | | | like a stork | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **look** | present | a pangolin | | | | | like a reptile | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **check** | infinitive | scientists | relatives | | | | by genes and bodies; by looks | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relative=Theme | 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:3`. **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): 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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