Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 15
Some farmers smear fences with chilli and grease or burn chilli bricks, because chilli stings elephants' sensitive trunks.
Who acts: farmers, chilli · What happens: smear, burn, sting · To what, where: fences, chilli bricks, sensitive trunks
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 (farmers, chilli), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 farmers | det |
| 2 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 smear | nsubj |
| 3 | smear | smear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fences | fence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 smear | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 chilli | case |
| 6 | chilli | chilli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smear | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grease | cc |
| 8 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chilli | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 burn | cc |
| 10 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 smear | conj |
| 11 | chilli | chilli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bricks | compound |
| 12 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 burn | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trunks | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 stings | mark |
| 15 | chilli | chilli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stings | nsubj |
| 16 | stings | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 smear | advcl |
| 17 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 trunks | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 17 elephants | case |
| 19 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 trunks | amod |
| 20 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stings | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smear | punct |
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 | smear | present | some farmers | fences | with chilli and grease | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent fence=Destination with chilli=Theme | |||
| 2 | burn | present | some farmers not said here | chilli bricks | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brick=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sting | present | chilli | elephants's sensitive trunks | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus trunk=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:15.
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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