Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 5
In Kenya, farmers hang beehives along fences, and the elephants keep away from their fields.
Who acts: farmers, elephants · What happens: hang, keep away · To what, where: beehives, Kenya
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 (farmers, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Kenya | case |
| 2 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hang | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kenya | punct |
| 4 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hang | nsubj |
| 5 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | beehives | beehive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hang | obj |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 fences | case |
| 8 | fences | fence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hang | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 keep | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 elephants | det |
| 12 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 keep | nsubj |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hang | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 keep | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 fields | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fields | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 away | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | farmers | beehives | Kenya | along fences | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beehive=Theme in kenya=Destination | ||
| 2 | keep away | present | the elephants | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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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