--- title: Bulls cannot tell red from green; in a bullfight, where a matador wa… — Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole… · tree and pragmatics description: Bulls cannot tell red from green; in a bullfight, where a matador waves a cape at the bull, it is the cape's movement that makes them charge. Who acts: Bulls, matador, movement. 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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 (Bulls, matador, movement), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:14 # text = Bulls cannot tell red from green; in a bullfight, where a matador waves a cape at the bull, it is the cape's movement that makes them charge. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Bulls bull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bullfight bullfight NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 16 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 matador matador NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 waves wave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cape cape NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 cape cape NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 charge charge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | Bulls | red | | green | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent red=Recipient | | 2 | **wave** | present | a matador | a cape | | | | at the bull | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cape=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | matador | the cape's movement | | a bullfight | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | the cape's movement | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **charge** | infinitive | Bulls *= bull* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:14`. **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, 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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