Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 12
Elephants greet and comfort each other by touching faces and twisting their trunks together.
Who acts: Elephants · What happens: greet, comfort, touch, twist · To what, where: each, faces, trunks
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 greet | nsubj |
| 2 | greet | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 comfort | cc |
| 4 | comfort | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 greet | conj |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 comfort | obj |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 touching | mark |
| 8 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 comfort | advcl |
| 9 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 touching | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 twisting | cc |
| 11 | twisting | twist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 touching | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 trunks | nmod:poss |
| 13 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 twisting | obj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 twisting | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 greet | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | present | Elephants | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | comfort | present | Elephants not said here | each | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus each=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | touch | gerund | Elephants not said here | faces | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | twist | gerund | Elephants not said here | faces's trunks | together property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme |
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:12.
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): R8-pos-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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