Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 16
Baby elephants stay close to mothers and aunts, who circle them when lions or hyenas come; babies suck their trunks for comfort.
Who acts: Baby elephants, mothers, lions, babies · What happens: stay, circle, come, suck · To what, where: 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 (Baby elephants, mothers, lions, babies), 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 | Baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 elephants | compound |
| 2 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 stay | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 mothers | case |
| 6 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 close | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 aunts | cc |
| 8 | aunts | aunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mothers | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 circle | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 circle | nsubj |
| 11 | circle | circle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mothers | acl:relcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 circle | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 come | advmod |
| 14 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 come | nsubj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 hyenas | cc |
| 16 | hyenas | hyena | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lions | conj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 circle | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 suck | punct |
| 19 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 suck | nsubj |
| 20 | suck | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 circle | parataxis |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 trunks | nmod:poss |
| 22 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 suck | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 comfort | case |
| 24 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 suck | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | Baby elephants | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | circle | present | mothers and aunts | trunks = trunk | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | present | lions or hyenas | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | suck | present | babies | trunks's trunks | for comfort | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent trunk=Source |
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:16.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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