Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 15

There is no good evidence that real elephants are especially scared of mice; like many animals, they may startle at any small sudden movement near their feet.

Who acts: good evidence, real elephants, mice · What happens: be, startle · To what, where: good evidence, small sudden movement

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth» 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 (good evidence, real elephants, mice), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 evidence	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evidence	amod
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 scared	mark
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 elephants	amod
8	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 scared	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 scared	cop
10	especially	especially	ADV	_	11 scared	advmod
11	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evidence	acl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 mice	case
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 scared	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 startle	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 animals	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 animals	amod
17	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 startle	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 startle	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 startle	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 startle	aux
21	startle	startle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 is	parataxis
22	at	at	ADP	_	26 movement	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 movement	det
24	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 movement	amod
25	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 movement	amod
26	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 startle	obl
27	near	near	ADP	_	29 feet	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 feet	nmod:poss
29	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 movement	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no good evidence		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	real elephants	no good evidence not said here		of mice; especially, scared property	tree rules
3	startle	may	mice = mouse		any small sudden movement near mice's feet	like many animals	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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