--- title: Other myths are just funny, like the cow that lies down because rain… — Pets and farm animals · tree and pragmatics description: Other myths are just funny, like the cow that lies down because rain is coming, or the bull that "hates red", when really bulls hardly tell red from green and charge at the cape because it moves. Who acts: Other myths, cow, rain, bull. A sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Pets and farm animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/) / 3 # Pets and farm animals, sentence 3 Other myths are just funny, like the cow that lies down because rain is coming, or the bull that "hates red", when really bulls hardly tell red from green and charge at the cape because it moves. **Who acts:** Other myths, cow, rain, bull, bulls · **What happens:** be, lie down, come, hate, tell, charge · **To what, where:** red, green, cape · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths 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 (Other myths, cow, rain, bull), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:3 # text = Other myths are just funny, like the cow that lies down because rain is coming, or the bull that "hates red", when really bulls hardly tell red from green and charge at the cape because it moves. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 007-pets-and-farm-animals.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 ×2 1 Other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 down down ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 hates hate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 28 really really ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 bulls bull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 32 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 green green NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 charge charge VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 cape cape NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 because because SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Other myths | | | | | like the cow or the bull; funny *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lie down** | present | the cow or the bull | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | present · progressive | rain | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hate** *in a quote* | present | the bull | red | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | bulls | red | | green | | hardly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent red=Recipient | | 6 | **charge** | present | bulls *not said here* | | | the cape | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cape=Trajectory | | 7 | **move** | present | rain | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:007-pets-and-farm-animals.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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Pets and farm animals, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/2/) - next →: [Pets and farm animals, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/)