Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 6

There is no good evidence that elephants fear mice; like us, they may be startled by any small thing moving suddenly near their feet.

Who acts: good evidence, elephants, small thing · What happens: be, fear, startle, move · To what, where: mice, herds, feet

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 (good evidence, elephants, small thing), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 evidence	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evidence	amod
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 fear	mark
7	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fear	nsubj
8	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 evidence	acl
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fear	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 us	case
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 startled	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 startled	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 startled	nsubj:pass
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 startled	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 startled	aux:pass
17	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 is	parataxis
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 thing	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 thing	det
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 startled	obl
22	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 thing	acl
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	22 moving	advmod
24	near	near	ADP	_	26 feet	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 feet	nmod:poss
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 moving	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no good evidence		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fear	present	elephants	mice			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus
3	startle	may · passive	any small thing	herds = herd		like us	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
4	move	gerund	any small thing not said here		herds's feet	suddenly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme near foot=Trajectory

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:6.

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 ×2, 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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