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title: Some films join shots of several similar animals to tell the story o… — Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some films join shots of several similar animals to tell the story of one, because it is hard to follow one wild animal everywhere for a year; good films tell you when they do. Who acts: films, good films. A sentence of the lesson «Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is 
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# Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real, sentence 14

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Some films join shots of several similar animals to tell the story of one, because it is hard to follow one wild animal everywhere for a year; good films tell you when they do.

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**Who acts:** films, good films · **What happens:** join, tell, be, follow · **To what, where:** shots, story, one wild animal, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real» 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 (films, good films), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.lesson:14
# text = Some films join shots of several similar animals to tell the story of one, because it is hard to follow one wild animal everywhere for a year; good films tell you when they do.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	shots	shot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	expl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | present | some films | shots of several similar animals |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shot=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | some films *not said here* | the story of one |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | some films *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **follow** | to-infinitive |  | one wild animal |  |  | year | everywhere *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | good films |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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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**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:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.lesson:14`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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