The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 0
An elephant herd is a family of mothers, daughters, aunts and babies, and at the front walks the grandmother, the matriarch, who remembers where the water is and which dangers to avoid.
Who acts: elephant herd, grandmother, matriarch, water, dangers · What happens: be, walk, remember, avoid · To what, where: family, front · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The elephant house: herds, feet, food 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 (elephant herd, grandmother, matriarch, water), 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 | 3 herd | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 herd | compound |
| 3 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 family | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 family | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mothers | case |
| 8 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 family | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 daughters | punct |
| 10 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mothers | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 aunts | punct |
| 12 | aunts | aunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mothers | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 babies | cc |
| 14 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mothers | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 walks | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 walks | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 front | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 front | det |
| 19 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 walks | obl |
| 20 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 family | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 grandmother | det |
| 22 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 walks | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grandmother | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 matriarch | det |
| 25 | matriarch | matriarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grandmother | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 matriarch | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 remembers | nsubj |
| 28 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 matriarch | acl:relcl |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 remembers | ccomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 water | det |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 where | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 where | cop |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 avoid | cc |
| 34 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 35 dangers | det |
| 35 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 avoid | nsubj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 avoid | mark |
| 37 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 where | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 family | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a elephant herd | a family | of mothers and daughters and aunts and babies | tree rules | |||
| 2 | walk | present | the grandmother | the front | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at front=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | remember | present | the matriarch | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the water | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | avoid | to-infinitive | which dangers | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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:083-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth.lesson:0.
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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