Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 9
An elephant's trunk has tens of thousands of muscle bundles and can hold things as delicately as fingers.
Who acts: trunk · What happens: have, hold · To what, where: tens, things
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 (trunk), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 elephant | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 elephant | case |
| 4 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 thousands | case |
| 8 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tens | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bundles | case |
| 10 | muscle | muscle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bundles | compound |
| 11 | bundles | bundle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thousands | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hold | cc |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hold | aux |
| 14 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 has | conj |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hold | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 delicately | advmod |
| 17 | delicately | delicately | ADV | _ | 14 hold | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 fingers | case |
| 19 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 delicately | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a elephant's trunk | tens of thousands of muscle bundles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hold | can | a elephant's trunk not said here | things | delicately property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:9.
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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