Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 14

African elephants run from the buzz of angry bees, which sting the trunk and around the eyes, so Kenyan farmers hang beehives on fences to protect crops.

Who acts: African elephants, angry bees, Kenyan farmers · What happens: run, sting, hang, protect, buzz · To what, where: buzz, trunk, beehives, fences, crops

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 (African elephants, angry bees, Kenyan farmers), 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	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 elephants	amod
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	nsubj
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 buzz	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 buzz	det
6	buzz	buzz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bees	case
8	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bees	amod
9	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buzz	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 trunk	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sting	nsubj
12	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bees	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trunk	det
14	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sting	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eyes	cc
16	around	around	ADP	_	18 eyes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eyes	det
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 trunk	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hang	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 hang	advmod
21	Kenyan	Kenyan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 farmers	amod
22	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hang	nsubj
23	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 run	conj
24	beehives	beehive	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hang	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 fences	case
26	fences	fence	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hang	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 protect	mark
28	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hang	advcl
29	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 protect	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 run	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	run	present	African elephants		the buzz of angry bees	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from buzz=Trajectory
2	sting	present	angry bees	the trunk and the eyes		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus trunk=Experiencer
3	hang	present	Kenyan farmers	beehives	fences	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beehive=Theme on fence=Destination
4	protect	to-infinitive	Kenyan farmers not said here	crops		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Beneficiary
5	buzz		angry bees			nom buzz «event intransitive»: of=agent

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:14.

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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