Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 15

An elephant brain weighs about 5 kilograms, the largest of any land animal, but a big body needs a big brain, so size alone does not show cleverness.

Who acts: elephant brain, big body, size · What happens: weigh, need, not show · To what, where: 5 kilograms, big brain, cleverness

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 brain, big body, size), 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 brain	det
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brain	compound
3	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weighs	nsubj
4	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 5	advmod
6	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 kilograms	nummod
7	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 weighs	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 largest	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 largest	det
10	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 kilograms	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 animal	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 animal	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 animal	compound
14	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 largest	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 needs	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 needs	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 body	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 body	amod
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 needs	nsubj
20	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 weighs	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 brain	det
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 brain	amod
23	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 needs	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 show	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	30 show	advmod
26	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 show	nsubj
27	alone	alone	ADV	_	26 size	advmod
28	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 show	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 show	advmod
30	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 needs	conj
31	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 show	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 weighs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	weigh	present	a elephant brain	5 kilograms	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value
2	need	present	a big body	a big brain	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot brain=Theme
3	not show	present · do-support	size	cleverness	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cleverness=Recipient

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:15.

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 ×4, 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.

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