Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 0

In cartoons, a huge elephant screams and leaps onto a stool at the sight of a tiny mouse; in Dumbo, a whole row of elephant ladies panics at Timothy the mouse.

Who acts: huge elephant, whole row · What happens: scream, leap, panic, sight · To what, where: cartoons, stool, mouse, Dumbo, tiny mouse

This is a sentence of the lesson «Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?» of the biology 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 (huge elephant, whole row), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 cartoons	case
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 screams	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cartoons	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 elephant	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 elephant	amod
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 screams	nsubj
7	screams	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 panics	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 leaps	cc
9	leaps	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 screams	conj
10	onto	onto	ADP	_	12 stool	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stool	det
12	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaps	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 sight	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sight	det
15	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stool	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 mouse	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mouse	det
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mouse	amod
19	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sight	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 Dumbo	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Dumbo	case
22	Dumbo	Dumbo	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 panics	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 row	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 row	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 row	amod
26	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 panics	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 ladies	case
28	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ladies	compound
29	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 row	nmod
30	panics	panic	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 Timothy	case
32	Timothy	Timothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 panics	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mouse	det
34	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 panics	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 screams	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	present	a huge elephant		cartoons		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location
2	leap	present	a huge elephant not said here		a stool at the sight of a tiny mouse		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto stool=Trajectory
3	panic	present	a whole row of elephant ladies	the mouse	Dumbo	at Timothy	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient
4	sight			a tiny mouse			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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, 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:biology:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice.lesson:0.

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, R6-punct-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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