Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 11

Elephants have a superb sense of smell and more smell genes than dogs, and lift the trunk to catch scents on the wind.

Who acts: Elephants · What happens: have, lift, catch, sense · To what, where: superb sense, trunk, scents, wind, smell

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	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sense	det
4	superb	superb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sense	amod
5	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 smell	case
7	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sense	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 genes	cc
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 genes	amod
10	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 genes	compound
11	genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sense	conj
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 dogs	case
13	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 genes	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lift	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lift	cc
16	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trunk	det
18	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lift	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 catch	mark
20	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 lift	advcl
21	scents	scent	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 catch	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 wind	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wind	det
24	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 catch	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Elephants	a superb sense of smell and more smell genes than dogs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
2	lift	present	Elephants not said here	the trunk		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme
3	catch	to-infinitive	Elephants not said here	scents	the wind	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Theme
4	sense			smell		nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=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:021-elephants-the-trunk.lesson:11.

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): R5-strong ×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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