Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory, sentence 17
The elephant graveyard, a secret place where elephants go to die, is a myth.
Who acts: elephants, elephant graveyard · What happens: go, die, be · To what, where: myth
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, elephant graveyard), 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 | 3 graveyard | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 graveyard | compound |
| 3 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 myth | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 6 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 place | amod |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 graveyard | appos |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 go | advmod |
| 9 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 go | nsubj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 place | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 die | mark |
| 12 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 graveyard | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 myth | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 myth | det |
| 16 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 myth | 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 | go | present | elephants | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive | elephants not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the elephant graveyard | a myth | 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:022-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory.lesson:17.
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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