Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 12
An Asian elephant called Happy touched a mark on her head that she could only see in a big mirror, but some elephants do not pass the test.
Who acts: Asian elephant, Happy, elephants · What happens: call, touch, see, not pass · To what, where: Asian elephant, mark, big mirror, test · 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 (Asian elephant, Happy, 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 elephant | det |
| 2 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 elephant | amod |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 elephant | acl |
| 5 | Happy | Happy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mark | det |
| 8 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mark | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 see | obj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 mark | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 mirror | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mirror | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mirror | amod |
| 20 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pass | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 pass | cc |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 elephants | det |
| 24 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pass | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 pass | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 pass | advmod |
| 27 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 touched | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 test | det |
| 29 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pass | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 touched | 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 | call | participle | a Asian elephant not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | touch | past | a Asian elephant | a mark | on Happy's head | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mark=Experiencer on head=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | could | Happy | a mark | a big mirror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | not pass | present · do-support | some elephants | the test | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme test=Trajectory |
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:12.
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): no change. 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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