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title: Cartoons are fun because they bend the truth, but behind each one is… — Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cartoons are fun because they bend the truth, but behind each one is a real animal with its own amazing story. Who acts: Cartoons, one. A sentence of the lesson «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho
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# Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker, sentence 1

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Cartoons are fun because they bend the truth, but behind each one is a real animal with its own amazing story.

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**Who acts:** Cartoons, one · **What happens:** be, bend · **To what, where:** truth, real animal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» 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 (Cartoons, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker.lesson:1
# text = Cartoons are fun because they bend the truth, but behind each one is a real animal with its own amazing story.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker.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	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bend	bend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Cartoons |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bend** | present | Cartoons *= cartoon* | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent truth=Material |
| 3 | **is a** | present | each one | a real animal |  |  |  | with animal's own amazing story | tree rules |

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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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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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