Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 7

Elephants in Kenya can tell the voices of Maasai men, who sometimes hunt them, from the voices of women and boys, and they fear only the men's voices.

Who acts: Elephants, Maasai men, voices · What happens: tell, hunt, fear · To what, where: voices · 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, Maasai men, voices), 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	5 tell	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Kenya	case
3	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Elephants	nmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 voices	det
7	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 men	case
9	Maasai	maasai	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 men	compound
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 voices	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hunt	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 hunt	nsubj
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 hunt	advmod
14	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 men	acl:relcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hunt	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 voices	punct
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 voices	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 voices	det
19	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 women	case
21	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 voices	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 boys	cc
23	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 women	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fear	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fear	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fear	nsubj
27	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	conj
28	only	only	ADV	_	32 voices	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 men	det
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 voices	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 men	case
32	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fear	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	Elephants in Kenya	the voices of Maasai men	the voices of women and boys		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent voice=Recipient
2	hunt	present	Maasai men	voices = voice		sometimes property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	fear	present	voices = voice	the men's voices			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

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:7.

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. 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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