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title: Piglets, owls, rabbits and donkeys could live in an English wood, bu… — Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Piglets, owls, rabbits and donkeys could live in an English wood, but kangaroos come from Australia and tigers from Asia; a real tiger uses its tail for balance, while kangaroos really do use their tails as a fifth leg when moving slowly. Who acts: Piglets, kangaroos, real tiger. A sentence of the l
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# Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker, sentence 16

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Piglets, owls, rabbits and donkeys could live in an English wood, but kangaroos come from Australia and tigers from Asia; a real tiger uses its tail for balance, while kangaroos really do use their tails as a fifth leg when moving slowly.

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**Who acts:** Piglets, kangaroos, real tiger · **What happens:** live, come, use, move · **To what, where:** English wood, Australia, tail, tails

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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 (Piglets, kangaroos, real tiger), 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:16
# text = Piglets, owls, rabbits and donkeys could live in an English wood, but kangaroos come from Australia and tigers from Asia; a real tiger uses its tail for balance, while kangaroos really do use their tails as a fifth leg when moving slowly.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Piglets	piglet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
36	really	really	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
45	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
46	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
47	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | could | Piglets and owls and rabbits and donkeys |  |  | a English wood |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
| 2 | **come** | present | kangaroos |  |  | Australia and tigers from Asia |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from australia=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **use** | present | a real tiger | wood's tail |  |  |  | for balance | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent tail=Theme for balance=Eventuality |
| 4 | **use** | present · do-support | kangaroos | kangaroos's tails |  |  |  | as a fifth leg | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tail=Duration as leg=Attribute |
| 5 | **move** | gerund | kangaroos *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×2. **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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