Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 11
Elephants feel deep rumbles from far-off elephants through their feet and trunks, and make many sounds too low for people to hear.
Who acts: Elephants, people · What happens: feel, make, hear · To what, where: deep rumbles, many sounds
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 (Elephants, people), 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 | Elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rumbles | amod |
| 4 | rumbles | rumble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feel | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 elephants | case |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 elephants | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 far | punct |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 elephants | case |
| 9 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rumbles | nmod |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 elephants | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 trunks | cc |
| 14 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 feet | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 feel | conj |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sounds | amod |
| 19 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 low | advmod |
| 21 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 make | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 hear | mark |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hear | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 hear | mark |
| 25 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 low | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Elephants | deep rumbles | from elephants through bees's feet and trunks | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumble=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | present | Elephants not said here | many sounds | low property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | |||
| 3 | hear | to-infinitive | people | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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:11.
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 ×4, R8-pos-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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