Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 18

The tip of the trunk is as sensitive as our fingertips, so elephants tap and feel things to test them, such as whether ground is safe.

Who acts: tip, elephants, ground · What happens: be, tap, feel, test · To what, where: things

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 (tip, elephants, ground), 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	2 tip	det
2	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sensitive	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 trunk	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trunk	det
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tip	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sensitive	cop
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 sensitive	advmod
8	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 fingertips	case
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fingertips	nmod:poss
11	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sensitive	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tap	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 tap	advmod
14	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tap	nsubj
15	tap	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sensitive	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 feel	cc
17	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tap	conj
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 feel	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 test	mark
20	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 things	acl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 test	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 safe	punct
23	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	26 ground	case
24	as	as	ADP	_	23 such	fixed
25	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	23 such	fixed
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 safe	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 safe	cop
28	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sensitive	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sensitive	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tip of the trunk		as our fingertips; sensitive property	tree rules
2	tap	present	elephants			vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent
3	feel	present	elephants not said here	things		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
4	test	to-infinitive	elephants not said here	things = thing		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	is	present	ground		safe property	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:18.

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, R7-rel-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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