Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 7

Elephants see poorly and are startled by sudden small movements near their feet, whether a mouse, a bird or a plastic bag; horses shy at bags too.

Who acts: Elephants, sudden small movements, horses · What happens: see, startle, shy · To what, where: bags

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, sudden small movements, horses), 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	_	6 startled	cc
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 startled	aux:pass
6	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 see	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 movements	case
8	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 movements	amod
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 movements	amod
10	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 startled	obl
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 feet	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 feet	nmod:poss
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 movements	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mouse	punct
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	17 mouse	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mouse	det
17	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 startled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bird	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bird	det
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mouse	conj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 bag	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bag	det
23	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bag	amod
24	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bird	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 shy	punct
26	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shy	nsubj
27	shy	shy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	parataxis
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 bags	case
29	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shy	obl
30	too	too	ADV	_	27 shy	advmod
31	.	.	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	present · passive	sudden small movements near movements's feet		whether a mouse and a bird or a plastic bag	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	shy	present	horses	bags		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:7.

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. 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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