Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 16
Elephants sometimes use tools, such as a stick to scratch an itch or a leafy branch to swat flies.
Who acts: Elephants · What happens: use, scratch, swat · To what, where: tools, itch, flies
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 use | nsubj |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 use | advmod |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stick | punct |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 stick | case |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 such | fixed |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stick | det |
| 9 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tools | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 scratch | mark |
| 11 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stick | acl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 itch | det |
| 13 | itch | itch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scratch | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 branch | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 branch | det |
| 16 | leafy | leafy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 branch | amod |
| 17 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 itch | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 swat | mark |
| 19 | swat | swat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 scratch | advcl |
| 20 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 swat | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Elephants | tools | such a stick; sometimes property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient | |||
| 2 | scratch | to-infinitive | Elephants not said here | a itch or a leafy branch | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swat | to-infinitive | Elephants not said here | flies | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=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:16.
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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