--- title: Many things people believe about animals are myths: bats are not bli… — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics description: Many things people believe about animals are myths: bats are not blind, owls cannot turn their heads all the way round, and sharks very rarely attack people. Who acts: people, Many things, bats, 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 (people, Many things, bats, owls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:2 # text = Many things people believe about animals are myths: bats are not blind, owls cannot turn their heads all the way round, and sharks very rarely attack people. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.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 ×3 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 24 round round ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 29 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 attack attack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | present | people | Many things *not said here* | | | | about animals | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | Many things | myths | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | bats | | | | | blind *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **turn** | can | owls | animals's heads | | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 5 | **attack** | present | sharks | people | | | | rarely *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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:everyday:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:2`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Wild animals, zoos and kindness to ani…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/1/) - next →: [Wild animals, zoos and kindness to ani…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/)