Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 13
Elephant families walk behind the matriarch along old paths that lead to water, salt licks and fruit trees.
Who acts: Elephant families, old paths · What happens: walk, lead · To what, where: matriarch
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 families, old paths), 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 | Elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 families | compound |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walk | nsubj |
| 3 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 matriarch | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 matriarch | det |
| 6 | matriarch | matriarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walk | obl |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 9 paths | case |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 paths | amod |
| 9 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walk | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lead | nsubj |
| 11 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 paths | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lead | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 licks | punct |
| 15 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 licks | compound |
| 16 | licks | lick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 water | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 trees | cc |
| 18 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trees | compound |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 water | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | Elephant families | the matriarch | along old paths | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind matriarch=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | lead | present | old paths | to water and salt licks and fruit trees | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to water=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:13.
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): R8-pos-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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