Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 4

Cartoons show elephants drinking through the trunk like a straw and blowing water out like a fireman; the second part is right, but the water goes up the trunk, stops, and is blown into the mouth.

Who acts: Cartoons, elephants, second part, water · What happens: show, drink, blow out, be, go up, stop · To what, where: elephants, trunk, water, mouth

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 (Cartoons, elephants, second part, water), 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	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	obj
4	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 elephants	acl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 trunk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trunk	det
7	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drinking	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 straw	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 straw	det
10	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drinking	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blowing	cc
12	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 drinking	conj
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blowing	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	12 blowing	compound:prt
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 fireman	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fireman	det
17	fireman	fireman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blowing	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 right	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 part	det
20	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 part	amod
21	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 right	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 right	cop
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 show	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 goes	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 goes	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 goes	nsubj
28	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 right	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 goes	compound:prt
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 trunk	det
31	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 goes	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stops	punct
33	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 goes	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 blown	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 blown	cc
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 blown	aux:pass
37	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 right	parataxis
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 mouth	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 mouth	det
40	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 blown	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 show	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	Cartoons		elephants			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient
2	drink	gerund	elephants not said here			the trunk	like a straw	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	blow out	gerund	elephants not said here	water			like a fireman	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent water=Patient
4	is	present	the second part				right property	tree rules
5	go up	present	the water	the trunk				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient trunk=Extent
6	stop	present	the water not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	blow	present · passive				the mouth		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: into mouth=Product

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:4.

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): 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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