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title: Cartoons borrow a few true features, like Patrick's five arms in Spo… — The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cartoons borrow a few true features, like Patrick's five arms in SpongeBob, and invent the rest, so a good scientist checks which parts are real. Who acts: Cartoons, good scientist, parts. A sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» of the biology course
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# The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 4

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Cartoons borrow a few true features, like Patrick's five arms in SpongeBob, and invent the rest, so a good scientist checks which parts are real.

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**Who acts:** Cartoons, good scientist, parts · **What happens:** borrow, invent, check, be · **To what, where:** few true features, rest

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» 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, good scientist, parts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:4
# text = Cartoons borrow a few true features, like Patrick's five arms in SpongeBob, and invent the rest, so a good scientist checks which parts are real.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	borrow	borrow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	SpongeBob	SpongeBob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	invent	invent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:amod
24	scientist	scientist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:compound
25	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
26	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	27	det	_	_
27	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	ccomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **borrow** | present | Cartoons | a few true features |  |  |  | like Patrick's five arms in SpongeBob | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feature=Theme |
| 2 | **invent** | present | Cartoons *not said here* | the rest |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Result |
| 3 | **check** | present | a good scientist |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | which parts |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

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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:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:4`.

**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 ×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.

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

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