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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gryphon, people, ancient fossil skulls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:14 # text = A Gryphon, or griffin, is a creature of old legends with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion; it never existed, though some people think ancient fossil skulls found in the desert may have helped the story along. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.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, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Gryphon gryphon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 griffin griffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 existed exist VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=30:punct 32 though though SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 36 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 skulls skull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 39 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 aux _ _ 45 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 ccomp _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 along along ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a Gryphon or griffin | a creature | | | | of old legends with the head of a eagle and the body of a lion and wings | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **exist** | past | Gryphon | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some people | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **find** | participle | | ancient fossil skulls *not said here* | | the desert | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **help** | may · perfect | ancient fossil skulls | the story | | | | along *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Beneficiary | 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. **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:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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