Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 4
What elephants really fear is the buzzing of angry bees, which can sting the soft skin inside the trunk and round the eyes.
Who acts: elephants, angry bees · What happens: fear, be, sting, round · To what, where: buzzing, soft skin, trunk, eyes
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, angry bees), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 fear | obj |
| 2 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fear | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 fear | advmod |
| 4 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 buzzing | csubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 buzzing | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 buzzing | det |
| 7 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bees | case |
| 9 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bees | amod |
| 10 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 buzzing | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sting | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sting | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sting | aux |
| 14 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bees | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skin | det |
| 16 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 skin | amod |
| 17 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sting | obj |
| 18 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 20 trunk | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trunk | det |
| 20 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skin | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 round | cc |
| 22 | round | round | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sting | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 eyes | det |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 round | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 buzzing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | elephants | the buzzing | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the buzzing | of angry bees | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sting | can | angry bees | the soft skin | the trunk | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus skin=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | round | infinitive | angry bees not said here | the eyes | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=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:4.
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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