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title: In the Road Runner cartoons the bird says «meep meep» and leaves Wil… — The desert: living with little water · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Road Runner cartoons the bird says «meep meep» and leaves Wile E. Who acts: bird. A sentence of the lesson «The desert: living with little water» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The desert: living with little water, sentence 3

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In the Road Runner cartoons the bird says «meep meep» and leaves Wile E.

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**Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** say, leave · **To what, where:** meep meep, Runner cartoons, Wile E. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The desert: living with little water» 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 (bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:005-the-desert.lesson:3
# text = In the Road Runner cartoons the bird says «meep meep» and leaves Wile E.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 005-the-desert.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Runner	Runner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	meep	meep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
11	meep	meep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
14	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	Wile	Wile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the bird | meep meep |  | the Runner cartoons |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent meep=Theme in cartoon=Manner |
| 2 | **leave** | present | the bird *not said here* | Wile E. |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e.=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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**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:005-the-desert.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): R1-cc-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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