Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 5
The trunk is the elephant's nose and upper lip joined together and grown very long.
Who acts: trunk, nose · What happens: be, join, grow · To what, where: nose
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 (trunk, nose), 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 trunk | det |
| 2 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nose | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 nose | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 elephant | det |
| 5 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nose | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 elephant | case |
| 7 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lip | cc |
| 9 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lip | amod |
| 10 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nose | conj |
| 11 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 nose | acl |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 joined | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 grown | cc |
| 14 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 joined | conj |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 grown | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 nose | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the trunk | the elephant's nose and upper lip | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | join | past | the elephant's nose and upper lip not said here | together property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | participle | the elephant's nose and upper lip not said here | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:5.
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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