Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 8
Mice do not crawl up elephant trunks; the trunk's strong muscles could blow anything out with a huge snort.
Who acts: Mice, strong muscles · What happens: not crawl up, blow out · To what, where: elephant trunks, anything
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, strong muscles), 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 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 blow | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trunk | det |
| 10 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 muscles | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 trunk | case |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 muscles | amod |
| 13 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 blow | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 blow | aux |
| 15 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 crawl | parataxis |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 blow | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 blow | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 snort | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 snort | det |
| 20 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 snort | amod |
| 21 | snort | snort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blow | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crawl | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not crawl up | present · do-support | Mice | elephant trunks | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location trunk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blow out | could | the trunk's strong muscles | anything | with a huge snort | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent anything=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:8.
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): 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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