Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 5
In a drought in Tanzania, herds with older matriarchs who remembered an earlier drought survived better.
Who acts: older matriarchs, herds · What happens: remember, survive · To what, where: earlier drought, drought
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 (older matriarchs, herds), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 drought | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 drought | det |
| 3 | drought | drought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 survived | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Tanzania | case |
| 5 | Tanzania | Tanzania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drought | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 herds | punct |
| 7 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 survived | nsubj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 matriarchs | case |
| 9 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 matriarchs | amod |
| 10 | matriarchs | matriarch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 herds | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 remembered | nsubj |
| 12 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 matriarchs | acl:relcl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 drought | det |
| 14 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 drought | amod |
| 15 | drought | drought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remembered | obj |
| 16 | survived | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 survived | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 survived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | older matriarchs | a earlier drought | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent drought=Theme | ||||
| 2 | survive | past | herds with older matriarchs | a drought in Tanzania | well property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drought=Location |
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:5.
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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