Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 10
Bees can sting the soft skin inside the trunk and round the eyes, and in Kenya beehive fences keep elephants out of fields while giving honey.
Who acts: Bees, beehive fences · What happens: sting, round, keep, give · To what, where: soft skin, trunk, eyes, elephants, Kenya, honey
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 (Bees, beehive fences), 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 | Bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sting | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sting | aux |
| 3 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skin | det |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skin | amod |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sting | obj |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 trunk | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trunk | det |
| 9 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skin | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 round | cc |
| 11 | round | round | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sting | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eyes | det |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 round | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 keep | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 keep | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Kenya | case |
| 17 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | obl |
| 18 | beehive | beehive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fences | compound |
| 19 | fences | fence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 keep | nsubj |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sting | conj |
| 21 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 keep | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 fields | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fields | case |
| 24 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 elephants | nmod |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 giving | mark |
| 26 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 keep | advcl |
| 27 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 giving | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | can | Bees | the soft skin | the trunk | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus skin=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | round | infinitive | Bees not said here | the eyes | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | beehive fences | elephants | Kenya | out fields | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme in kenya=Location | ||
| 4 | give | gerund | beehive fences not said here | honey | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=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, 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:10.
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): no change. 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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