--- title: Some tales are nearly true, like the owl that turns its head "all th… — Wild animals and tall tales · tree and pragmatics description: Some tales are nearly true, like the owl that turns its head "all the way round"; it turns about three-quarters of the way, and that is amazing enough. Who acts: tales, owl, story, that. 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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 (tales, owl, story, that), 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:4 # text = Some tales are nearly true, like the owl that turns its head "all the way round"; it turns about three-quarters of the way, and that is amazing enough. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 true true 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 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 round round ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod 24 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 quarters quarter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 amazing amazing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 35 enough enough ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is** | present | some tales | | | | | like the owl; nearly, true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | present | the owl | story's head | | | | all way *obl:unmarked* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 3 | **turn about** | present | story | three quarters of the way | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme quarter=Result | | 4 | **is** | present | that | | | | | amazing, enough *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:4`. **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. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/3/) - next →: [Wild animals and tall tales, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/)