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title: Most woodpeckers have two toes forward and two backward, like a clim… — Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most woodpeckers have two toes forward and two backward, like a climbing hook, and lean back on stiff tail feathers on a tree trunk; their tongue is so long it wraps round inside the skull. Who acts: Most woodpeckers, tongue. A sentence of the lesson «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield,
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# Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker, sentence 18

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Most woodpeckers have two toes forward and two backward, like a climbing hook, and lean back on stiff tail feathers on a tree trunk; their tongue is so long it wraps round inside the skull.

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**Who acts:** Most woodpeckers, tongue · **What happens:** have, lean back, be, wrap · **To what, where:** two toes, stiff tail feathers, skull

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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 (Most woodpeckers, tongue), 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:18
# text = Most woodpeckers have two toes forward and two backward, like a climbing hook, and lean back on stiff tail feathers on a tree trunk; their tongue is so long it wraps round inside the skull.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	woodpeckers	woodpecker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
9	backward	backward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	climbing	climbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lean	lean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	wraps	wrap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
35	round	round	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:advmod
36	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Most woodpeckers | two toes |  |  |  | like a climbing hook; backward *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient |
| 2 | **lean back** | present | Most woodpeckers *not said here* |  |  | stiff tail feathers |  | on a tree trunk | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on feather=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | woodpeckers's tongue |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wrap** | present | tongue |  |  | the skull |  | round *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme inside skull=Destination |

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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:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker.lesson:18`.

**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 ×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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