Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 17
Ants living inside the thorns of some acacia trees swarm and bite the soft inside of an elephant's trunk, so elephants leave those trees alone.
Who acts: Ants, elephants · What happens: live, swarm, bite, leave · To what, where: thorns, soft inside, trees
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 (Ants, elephants), 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 | Ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 swarm | nsubj |
| 2 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Ants | acl |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 5 thorns | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thorns | det |
| 5 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 living | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 trees | det |
| 8 | acacia | acacia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trees | compound |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thorns | nmod |
| 10 | swarm | swarm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bite | cc |
| 12 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 swarm | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 soft | det |
| 14 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 inside | amod |
| 15 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bite | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 trunk | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 elephant | det |
| 18 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 elephant | case |
| 20 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inside | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 leave | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 leave | advmod |
| 23 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 leave | nsubj |
| 24 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 swarm | conj |
| 25 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 trees | det |
| 26 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 leave | obj |
| 27 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 24 leave | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 swarm | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | Ants not said here | the thorns of some acacia trees | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside thorn=Location | ||||
| 2 | swarm | present | Ants | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bite | present | Ants not said here | soft inside of a elephant's trunk | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inside=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | present | elephants | that trees | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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:17.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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