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title: Real woodpeckers drum on wood to find insects, make nest holes and c… — Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real woodpeckers drum on wood to find insects, make nest holes and call to other woodpeckers; their skulls, neck muscles and beaks are built to take hard knocks, and some peck about 20 times a second. Who acts: Real woodpeckers, some. A sentence of the lesson «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, 
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# Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker, sentence 17

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Real woodpeckers drum on wood to find insects, make nest holes and call to other woodpeckers; their skulls, neck muscles and beaks are built to take hard knocks, and some peck about 20 times a second.

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**Who acts:** Real woodpeckers, some · **What happens:** drum, find, make, call, build, take · **To what, where:** insects, nest holes, other woodpeckers, skulls, hard knocks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Real woodpeckers, some), 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:17
# text = Real woodpeckers drum on wood to find insects, make nest holes and call to other woodpeckers; their skulls, neck muscles and beaks are built to take hard knocks, and some peck about 20 times a second.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	woodpeckers	woodpecker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drum	drum	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	woodpeckers	woodpecker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	skulls	skull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:xcomp
30	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	knocks	knock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	some	some	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	35	nsubj	_	_
35	peck	peck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
36	about	about	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	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 | **drum** | present | Real woodpeckers |  |  |  |  | on wood | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on wood=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Real woodpeckers *not said here* | insects |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | Real woodpeckers *not said here* | nest holes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product |
| 4 | **call** | infinitive | Real woodpeckers *not said here* |  | other woodpeckers |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to woodpecker=Recipient |
| 5 | **build** | present · passive |  | woodpeckers's skulls and neck muscles and beaks |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 6 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | hard knocks |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knock=Theme |
| 7 | **peck** | present | some |  |  |  | time |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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