Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 2

Elephants see poorly and can be startled by anything small that darts suddenly near their feet: a mouse, a bird or a plastic bag blowing past.

Who acts: Elephants, plastic bag · What happens: see, startle, dart, blow past · To what, where: feet

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, plastic bag), 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 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	2 see	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 startled	cc
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 startled	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 startled	aux:pass
7	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 see	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 startled	obl
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 anything	amod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 darts	nsubj
12	darts	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 anything	acl:relcl
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 darts	advmod
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 feet	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 feet	nmod:poss
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 darts	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 mouse	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mouse	det
19	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anything	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bird	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bird	det
22	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mouse	conj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 bag	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bag	det
25	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bag	amod
26	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anything	conj
27	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 bag	acl
28	past	past	ADV	_	27 blowing	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	Elephants		poorly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	startle	can · passive	Elephants not said here		by anything	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	dart	present		cartoons's feet	suddenly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near foot=Trajectory
4	blow past	gerund	a plastic bag not said here		past property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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:2.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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