Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 1
An elephant family is led by its oldest female, the matriarch, who remembers water holes, paths and dangers over decades.
Who acts: oldest female · What happens: lead, remember · To what, where: elephant family, water holes
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 (oldest female), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 family | compound |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | aux:pass |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 female | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 female | nmod:poss |
| 8 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 female | amod |
| 9 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl:agent |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 matriarch | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 matriarch | det |
| 12 | matriarch | matriarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 female | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 remembers | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 remembers | nsubj |
| 15 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 female | acl:relcl |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 holes | compound |
| 17 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 remembers | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 paths | punct |
| 19 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 holes | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dangers | cc |
| 21 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 holes | conj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 decades | case |
| 23 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 remembers | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present · passive | family's oldest female | a elephant family | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remember | present | family's oldest female | water holes and paths and dangers | decade | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hole=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:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth.lesson:1.
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. 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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