Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 3

Then it sucks up about 8 litres of water, squirts it into its mouth like a hose, and afterwards throws dust over its back as sunscreen and bug spray.

Who acts: mouth · What happens: suck up, squirt, throw · To what, where: 8 litres, mouth, dust, back

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 (mouth), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sucks	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sucks	nsubj
3	sucks	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sucks	compound:prt
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 8	advmod
6	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 litres	nummod
7	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sucks	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 litres	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 squirts	punct
11	squirts	squirt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sucks	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 squirts	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 mouth	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mouth	nmod:poss
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 squirts	obl
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 hose	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hose	det
18	hose	hose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 squirts	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 throws	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 throws	cc
21	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	22 throws	advmod
22	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sucks	conj
23	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 throws	obj
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 back	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 back	nmod:poss
26	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 throws	obl
27	as	as	ADP	_	31 spray	case
28	sunscreen	sunscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 throws	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bug	cc
30	bug	bug	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sunscreen	conj
31	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sunscreen	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sucks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck up	present	mouth	8 litres of water		then		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent litre=Source
2	squirt	present	mouth not said here	mouth	mouth's mouth		like a hose	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into mouth=Destination
3	throw	present	mouth not said here	dust	mouth's back		sunscreen and bug and spray obl; afterwards property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent dust=Theme over back=Destination

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:3.

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 ×3, R6-punct-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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