--- title: Wild-animal tall tales spread because we see animals from far away,… — Wild animals and tall tales · tree and pragmatics description: Wild-animal tall tales spread because we see animals from far away, in cartoons, or in old films, and a good story beats a dull truth: lemmings leaping off cliffs, bats that are blind, camels with water tanks on their backs. Who acts: animal tall tales, we, good story, lemmings. 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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 (animal tall tales, we, good story, lemmings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:2 # text = Wild-animal tall tales spread because we see animals from far away, in cartoons, or in old films, and a good story beats a dull truth: lemmings leaping off cliffs, bats that are blind, camels with water tanks on their backs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.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 1 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 away away ADV RB _ 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 32 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 leaping leap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 acl _ _ 34 off off ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 tanks tank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 46 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present | animal tall tales | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | present | we | animals or old films | | cartoons | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | | 3 | **beat** | present | a good story | a dull truth and lemmings and bats and camels with water tanks on tales's backs | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location truth=Theme | | 4 | **leap off** | gerund | lemmings and bats and camels with water tanks on tales's backs *not said here* | cliffs | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | bats | | | | | blind *property* | tree rules | 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:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.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 ×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: [Wild animals and tall tales, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/1/) - next →: [Wild animals and tall tales, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/)