Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 15
Elephants may jump at small sudden things, but the story that they are specially afraid of mice is a myth.
Who acts: Elephants, things, story · What happens: jump, be · To what, where: small sudden things, story, myth
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, things, story), 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 jump | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 jump | aux |
| 3 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 6 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 jump | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 myth | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 myth | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 myth | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 afraid | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 afraid | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 afraid | cop |
| 15 | specially | specially | ADV | _ | 16 afraid | advmod |
| 16 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 story | acl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mice | case |
| 18 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 afraid | obl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 myth | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 myth | det |
| 21 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jump | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jump | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | may | Elephants | small sudden things | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thing=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | present | things = thing | the story not said here | of mice; afraid, specially property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the story | a myth | 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:15.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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