The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 1
In the elephant house the floor is deep, warm sand instead of concrete, because an animal as heavy as several cars gets sore feet and joints on hard ground, and keepers trim its toenails with a big rasp.
Who acts: floor, animal, keepers · What happens: be, get, trim · To what, where: elephant house, sore feet, hard ground, toenails
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 (floor, animal, keepers), 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 | _ | 4 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | compound |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deep | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 floor | det |
| 6 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deep | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 deep | cop |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sand | punct |
| 10 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sand | amod |
| 11 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deep | conj |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 14 concrete | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instead | fixed |
| 14 | concrete | concrete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sand | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 animal | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | ExtPos=ADP | 24 gets | mark |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 animal | det |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gets | nsubj |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 heavy | advmod |
| 20 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 animal | amod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 cars | case |
| 22 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cars | amod |
| 23 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 heavy | obl |
| 24 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 deep | advcl |
| 25 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 feet | amod |
| 26 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gets | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 joints | cc |
| 28 | joints | joint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 feet | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 ground | case |
| 30 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ground | amod |
| 31 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 feet | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 trim | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 trim | cc |
| 34 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 trim | nsubj |
| 35 | trim | trim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 gets | conj |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 toenails | nmod:poss |
| 37 | toenails | toenail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 trim | obj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 rasp | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 rasp | det |
| 40 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 rasp | amod |
| 41 | rasp | rasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 trim | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 deep | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the floor | the elephant house | deep property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | present | a animal | sore feet and joints | hard ground | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on ground=Source | |||
| 3 | trim | present | keepers | animal's toenails | with a big rasp | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent toenail=Destination with rasp=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:083-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth.lesson:1.
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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