Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 4

Elephants often touch the bones of dead elephants gently with trunks and feet and pay much less attention to bones of other animals; scientists think they may feel something like grief.

Who acts: Elephants, scientists · What happens: touch, pay, think, feel · To what, where: bones, less attention, something · 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 (Elephants, scientists), 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 touch	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 touch	advmod
3	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bones	det
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 touch	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 elephants	case
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 elephants	amod
8	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bones	nmod
9	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 touch	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 trunks	case
11	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 touch	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 feet	cc
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 trunks	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pay	cc
15	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 touch	conj
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 less	advmod
17	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 attention	amod
18	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pay	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 bones	case
20	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pay	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 animals	case
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 animals	amod
23	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bones	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 think	punct
25	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 think	nsubj
26	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 touch	parataxis
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 feel	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 feel	aux
29	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 think	ccomp
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 feel	obj
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 grief	case
32	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 something	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 touch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch	present	Elephants	the bones of dead elephants	with trunks and feet; gently, often property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bone=Experiencer with trunk=Instrument
2	pay	present	Elephants not said here	less attention	to bones of other animals	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
3	think speech: other	present	scientists			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	feel	may	scientists = scientist	something	like grief	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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:4.

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 ×1, 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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