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title: Cartoons show raccoons as masked burglars washing their loot, hedgeh… — Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cartoons show raccoons as masked burglars washing their loot, hedgehogs carrying apples on their spines and skunks spraying for fun; the real animals are stranger and smarter, and a skunk always warns you first. Who acts: Cartoons, masked burglars, hedgehogs, skunks. A sentence of the lesson «Animal
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# Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 3

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Cartoons show raccoons as masked burglars washing their loot, hedgehogs carrying apples on their spines and skunks spraying for fun; the real animals are stranger and smarter, and a skunk always warns you first.

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**Who acts:** Cartoons, masked burglars, hedgehogs, skunks, real animals, skunk · **What happens:** show, mask, wash, carry, spray, be · **To what, where:** raccoons, loot, apples, spines, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins» 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 (Cartoons, masked burglars, hedgehogs, skunks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.lesson:3
# text = Cartoons show raccoons as masked burglars washing their loot, hedgehogs carrying apples on their spines and skunks spraying for fun; the real animals are stranger and smarter, and a skunk always warns you first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.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): no change
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	raccoons	raccoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	masked	mask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	burglars	burglar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	loot	loot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	spines	spine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	skunks	skunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	spraying	spray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	stranger	stranger	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	smarter	smart	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	skunk	skunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	35	advmod	_	_
35	warns	warn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	advmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Cartoons |  | raccoons |  |  | as masked burglars and hedgehogs | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent raccoon=Recipient |
| 2 | **mask** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wash** | gerund | masked burglars and hedgehogs *not said here* | raccoons's loot |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loot=Patient |
| 4 | **carry** | gerund | hedgehogs *not said here* | apples |  | raccoons's spines and skunks |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme |
| 5 | **spray** | gerund | skunks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for fun | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | the real animals |  |  |  |  | stranger *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | the real animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | a skunk |  | you |  |  | always, first *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 9 | **loot** |  | raccoons *= raccoon* |  |  |  |  |  | nom loot «possession transitive»: poss=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): no change. **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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