Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 3

Mice do not crawl up elephant trunks either: the trunk is a mighty muscular nose that blows dust and water over the elephant's back and could snort out any intruder.

Who acts: Mice, trunk, mighty muscular nose · What happens: not crawl up, be, blow, snort out · To what, where: elephant trunks, mighty muscular nose, dust, back, intruder

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 (Mice, trunk, mighty muscular nose), 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	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crawl	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 crawl	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 crawl	advmod
4	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 crawl	compound:prt
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trunks	compound
7	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crawl	obj
8	either	either	ADV	_	4 crawl	advmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 nose	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trunk	det
11	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nose	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 nose	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 nose	det
14	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nose	amod
15	muscular	muscular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nose	amod
16	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trunks	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 blows	nsubj
18	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 nose	acl:relcl
19	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blows	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 water	cc
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dust	conj
22	over	over	ADP	_	26 back	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 elephant	det
24	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 back	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 elephant	case
26	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blows	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 snort	cc
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 snort	aux
29	snort	snort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 blows	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 snort	compound:prt
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 intruder	det
32	intruder	intruder	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 snort	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crawl	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not crawl up	present · do-support	Mice	elephant trunks		either property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location trunk=Theme
2	is a	present	the trunk	a mighty muscular nose			tree rules
3	blow	present	a mighty muscular nose	dust and water	the elephant's back		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent dust=Patient
4	snort out	could	a mighty muscular nose not said here	any intruder			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intruder=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:3.

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. 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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