--- title: Cartoons bend these birds: Rio's Blu is a real kind of macaw, but Ro… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons bend these birds: Rio's Blu is a real kind of macaw, but Road Runner would lose a real race against a coyote, and real owls do not deliver letters. Who acts: Cartoons, Blu, Road Runner, real owls. 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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, Blu, Road Runner, real owls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:4 # text = Cartoons bend these birds: Rio's Blu is a real kind of macaw, but Road Runner would lose a real race against a coyote, and real owls do not deliver letters. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bend bend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 6 Rio Rio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 Blu Blu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 macaw macaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Runner Runner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 against against ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 coyote coyote NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 34 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bend** | present | Cartoons | this birds | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent bird=Material | | 2 | **is a** | present | Rio's Blu | a real kind | | | | of macaw | tree rules | | 3 | **lose** | would | Road Runner | a real race | | | | against a coyote | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **deliver** | present · do-support | real owls | letters | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | 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:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.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): 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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