Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 8

There is no good evidence that elephants are especially afraid of mice; they can be startled by any small thing that suddenly moves near their feet.

Who acts: good evidence, elephants, small thing · What happens: be, startle, move · To what, where: good evidence, cats, feet

This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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, small thing), 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	_	10 afraid	mark
7	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 afraid	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 afraid	cop
9	especially	especially	ADV	_	10 afraid	advmod
10	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evidence	acl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 mice	case
12	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 afraid	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 startled	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 startled	nsubj:pass
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 startled	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 startled	aux:pass
17	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 is	parataxis
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 thing	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 thing	det
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 startled	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 moves	nsubj
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	24 moves	advmod
24	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 thing	acl:relcl
25	near	near	ADP	_	27 feet	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 feet	nmod:poss
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 moves	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no good evidence		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	elephants	no good evidence not said here		of mice; afraid, especially property	tree rules
3	startle	can · passive	any small thing	cats = cat			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
4	move	present	any small thing		cats's feet	suddenly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme near foot=Trajectory

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:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.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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