Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 2

Elephants also seem to have strong feelings: they comfort a frightened calf and stop at the bones of a dead elephant, touching them gently.

Who acts: Elephants, feelings · What happens: seem, have, comfort, stop, touch · To what, where: strong feelings, frightened calf, bones, feelings

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, feelings), 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	3 seem	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 seem	advmod
3	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seem	xcomp
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feelings	amod
7	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 comfort	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 comfort	nsubj
10	comfort	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seem	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 calf	det
12	frightened	frighten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 calf	amod
13	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 comfort	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stop	cc
15	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 comfort	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 bones	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bones	det
18	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stop	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 elephant	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 elephant	det
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 elephant	amod
22	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bones	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 touching	punct
24	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 stop	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 touching	obj
26	gently	gently	ADV	_	24 touching	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seem	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	present	Elephants				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	have	to-infinitive	Elephants not said here	strong feelings			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient
3	comfort	present	feelings = feeling	a frightened calf			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus calf=Experiencer
4	stop	present	feelings = feeling not said here		the bones of a dead elephant		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bone=Location
5	touch	gerund	feelings = feeling not said here	feelings = feeling		gently property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme

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:2.

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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