Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 17
The trumpet call is air blasted out through the trunk; elephants also make deep rumbles other elephants feel through their feet.
Who acts: elephants, other elephants · What happens: blast out, make, feel · To what, where: trumpet call, trunk, deep rumbles, feet
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, other 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 call | det |
| 2 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | compound |
| 3 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blasted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blasted | aux:pass |
| 5 | air | air | ADV | _ | 6 blasted | advmod |
| 6 | blasted | blast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 blasted | compound:prt |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 trunk | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trunk | det |
| 10 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blasted | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 12 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 make | advmod |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blasted | parataxis |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rumbles | amod |
| 16 | rumbles | rumble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 elephants | amod |
| 18 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 feel | nsubj |
| 19 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rumbles | acl:relcl |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 feet | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feet | nmod:poss |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 feel | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blasted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blast out | present · passive | the trumpet call | the trunk | air property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | present | elephants | deep rumbles | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumble=Product | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | other elephants | deep rumbles not said here | trunk's feet | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rumble=Theme through foot=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:17.
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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