Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 10
Elephants can swim and use the trunk as a snorkel, keeping only its tip above the water.
Who acts: Elephants · What happens: swim, use, keep · To what, where: trunk, tip, water
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 (Elephants), 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 swim | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 swim | aux |
| 3 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 use | cc |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 swim | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trunk | det |
| 7 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 snorkel | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 snorkel | det |
| 10 | snorkel | snorkel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keeping | punct |
| 12 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 use | advcl |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 tip | advmod |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tip | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeping | obj |
| 16 | above | above | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeping | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | can | Elephants | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | use | infinitive | Elephants not said here | the trunk | as a snorkel | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent trunk=Duration as snorkel=Attribute | |||
| 3 | keep | gerund | Elephants not said here | elephant's tip | the water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tip=Theme above water=Location |
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:10.
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): no change. 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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