Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 0
An elephant has one trunk, two ears, four legs, two eyes and one heart, but the trunk is the part that does almost everything: it is a nose, a hand, a hose, a snorkel and a trumpet all at once.
Who acts: elephant, trunk, part · What happens: have, be, do · To what, where: one trunk, part, everything, nose
This is a sentence of the lesson «Elephants: the trunk and everything it does» 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 (elephant, trunk, part), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 elephant | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 trunk | nummod |
| 5 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ears | punct |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 ears | nummod |
| 8 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 trunk | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 legs | punct |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 legs | nummod |
| 11 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 trunk | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eyes | punct |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 eyes | nummod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 trunk | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 heart | cc |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 heart | nummod |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trunk | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 part | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 part | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trunk | det |
| 21 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 part | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 part | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 part | det |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | conj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 does | nsubj |
| 26 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 part | acl:relcl |
| 27 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 28 everything | advmod |
| 28 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 does | obj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 nose | punct |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 nose | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 nose | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 nose | det |
| 33 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 everything | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hand | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 hand | det |
| 36 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 nose | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 hose | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 hose | det |
| 39 | hose | hose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 nose | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 snorkel | punct |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 snorkel | det |
| 42 | snorkel | snorkel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hose | appos |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 trumpet | cc |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 trumpet | det |
| 45 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 snorkel | conj |
| 46 | all | all | ADV | _ | 33 nose | advmod |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 once | case |
| 48 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 46 all | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a elephant | one trunk and two ears and four legs and two eyes and one heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the trunk | the part | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present | the part | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | elephant | a nose and a hand and a hose | all 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:021-elephants-the-trunk.lesson:0.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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