Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 9

Elephants really avoid bees: at the buzz of an angry swarm they shake their heads, walk away and warn each other with a special rumble.

Who acts: Elephants, bees, angry swarm · What happens: avoid, shake, walk away, warn, buzz · To what, where: bees, heads, buzz, each

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, bees, angry swarm), 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	3 avoid	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 avoid	advmod
3	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 avoid	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 buzz	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 buzz	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 buzz	det
8	buzz	buzz	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shake	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 swarm	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 swarm	det
11	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 swarm	amod
12	swarm	swarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 buzz	nmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shake	nsubj
14	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 avoid	parataxis
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heads	nmod:poss
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shake	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 walk	punct
18	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 shake	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 walk	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 warn	cc
21	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 walk	conj
22	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	21 warn	obj
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 each	fixed
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 rumble	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 rumble	det
26	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rumble	amod
27	rumble	rumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 warn	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 avoid	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	avoid	present	Elephants	bees			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent bee=Location
2	shake	present	bees = bee	bees's heads	the buzz of a angry swarm		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme at buzz=Trajectory
3	walk away	present	bees = bee not said here			away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	warn speech: warn	present	bees = bee not said here	each		with a special rumble	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient
5	buzz		a angry swarm				nom buzz «event intransitive»: of=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:9.

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, 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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