--- title: Cartoons get these animals wrong all the time: the chameleon turns t… — More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwha… · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons get these animals wrong all the time: the chameleon turns tartan on a picnic rug, the sloth is lazy, and the narwhal's tusk is a unicorn horn; the real reasons are better stories. Who acts: Cartoons, chameleon, sloth, tusk. 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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 (Cartoons, chameleon, sloth, tusk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:3 # text = Cartoons get these animals wrong all the time: the chameleon turns tartan on a picnic rug, the sloth is lazy, and the narwhal's tusk is a unicorn horn; the real reasons are better stories. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 6 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 8 det:predet _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 chameleon chameleon NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 13 tartan tartan NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 picnic picnic NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 rug rug NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sloth sloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=22:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 narwhal narwhal NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 tusk tusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 unicorn unicorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 amod _ _ 39 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Cartoons | this animals | | | time | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | | 2 | **turn** | present | the chameleon | tartan | | a picnic rug | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tartan=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the sloth | | | | | lazy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | the narwhal's tusk | a unicorn horn and better stories | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | the real reasons | better stories | | | | | tree rules | 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:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:3`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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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