Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory, sentence 15
Elephants recognise old friends after years apart and greet them noisily with rumbles, ear flapping and trunk touches.
Who acts: Elephants · What happens: recognise, greet · To what, where: old friends, friends
This is a sentence of the lesson «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» 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), 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 | Elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 recognise | nsubj |
| 2 | recognise | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friends | amod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 recognise | obj |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 friends | nmod |
| 7 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 6 years | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 greet | cc |
| 9 | greet | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 recognise | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 greet | obj |
| 11 | noisily | noisily | ADV | _ | 9 greet | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 rumbles | case |
| 13 | rumbles | rumble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 greet | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flapping | punct |
| 15 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flapping | compound |
| 16 | flapping | flap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rumbles | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 touches | cc |
| 18 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 touches | compound |
| 19 | touches | touch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flapping | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 recognise | 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 | recognise | present | Elephants | old friends | after years | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | present | Elephants not said here | friends = friend | with rumbles and ear flapping and trunk touches; noisily property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:022-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory.lesson:15.
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, R8-pos-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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