Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 6

There is no good evidence that elephants fear mice in particular; a TV test once showed an elephant stepping back from a mouse, but one test is not proof.

Who acts: good evidence, elephants, TV test, elephant, one test · What happens: be, fear, show, step back, not be · To what, where: mice, particular, elephant

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 (good evidence, elephants, TV test, elephant), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 evidence	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evidence	amod
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 fear	mark
7	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fear	nsubj
8	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 evidence	acl:relcl
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fear	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 particular	case
11	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fear	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 showed	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 test	det
14	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 test	compound
15	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 showed	nsubj
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 showed	advmod
17	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 elephant	det
19	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 showed	obj
20	stepping	step	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 elephant	acl
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 stepping	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 mouse	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mouse	det
24	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stepping	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 proof	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 proof	cc
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 test	nummod
28	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 proof	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 proof	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 proof	advmod
31	proof	proof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 showed	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no good evidence			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fear	present	elephants	mice		particular		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus
3	show	past	a TV test		a elephant		once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient
4	step back	gerund	a elephant not said here				from a mouse	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mouse=Trajectory
5	not is	present	one test				proof property	tree rules

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:6.

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, 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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