--- title: Cartoons get the numbers wrong: the ants in A Bug's Life walk on two… — The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantula… · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons get the numbers wrong: the ants in A Bug's Life walk on two legs and wave two arms, but a real ant has six legs, all fixed to the middle of its body. Who acts: Cartoons, ants, real ant. 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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, ants, real ant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:3 # text = Cartoons get the numbers wrong: the ants in A Bug's Life walk on two legs and wave two arms, but a real ant has six legs, all fixed to the middle of its body. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl 9 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Bug bug PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 Life Life PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 14 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 wave wave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 28 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 31 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 appos _ _ 32 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:acl 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 . . 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 | the numbers | | | | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | | 2 | **walk** | present | the ants in a Bug's Life | | | two legs | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | | 3 | **wave** | present | the ants in a Bug's Life *not said here* | two arms | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | | 4 | **have** | present | a real ant | six legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 5 | **fix** | participle | | six legs *not said here* | | | | to the middle of middle's body | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to middle=Co-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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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