Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 11
Elephants comfort a scared elephant by touching it with their trunks and making soft chirping sounds.
Who acts: Elephants · What happens: comfort, touch, make · To what, where: scared elephant, fruit, soft chirping sounds
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 (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 comfort | nsubj |
| 2 | comfort | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 elephant | det |
| 4 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 elephant | amod |
| 5 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comfort | obj |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 touching | mark |
| 7 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 comfort | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 touching | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 trunks | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 trunks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 touching | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 making | cc |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 touching | conj |
| 14 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sounds | amod |
| 15 | chirping | chirp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sounds | compound |
| 16 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 making | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comfort | 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 | comfort | present | Elephants | a scared elephant | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus elephant=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | touch | gerund | Elephants not said here | fruit | with branches's trunks | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with trunk=Instrument | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | Elephants not said here | soft chirping sounds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
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:11.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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