Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 0

«An elephant never forgets» is an old saying, and like many old sayings it is partly true: elephants have excellent memories, though not perfect ones.

Who acts: elephant, elephants · What happens: not forget, be, have · To what, where: old saying, excellent memories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the 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 (elephant, 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 forgets	punct
2	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 elephant	det
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgets	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 forgets	advmod
5	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 saying	csubj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 forgets	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 saying	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 saying	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 saying	amod
10	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 true	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 true	cc
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 sayings	case
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sayings	amod
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sayings	amod
16	sayings	saying	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 true	obl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 true	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 true	cop
19	partly	partly	ADV	_	20 true	advmod
20	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 saying	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
22	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 true	parataxis
24	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 memories	amod
25	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ones	punct
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 ones	mark
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 ones	advmod
29	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ones	amod
30	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not forget in a quote	present	a elephant			tree rules
2	is a	present		a old saying		tree rules
3	is	present	elephant		like many old sayings; partly, true property	tree rules
4	have	present	elephants	excellent memories	perfect ones obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient

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:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth.lesson:0.

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): R5-strong ×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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