The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 10

An adult elephant can eat more than 100 kilograms of food a day and digests only about half of it, so its dung is full of plant fibre.

Who acts: adult elephant, dung · What happens: eat, digest, be · To what, where: 100 kilograms, half

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 (adult elephant, dung), 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 elephant	det
2	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 elephant	amod
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	8 100	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 more	fixed
8	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 kilograms	nummod
9	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kilograms	nmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obl:unmarked
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 digests	cc
15	digests	digest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	conj
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 about	advmod
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 half	advmod
18	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 digests	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 half	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 full	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	26 full	advmod
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 dung	nmod:poss
24	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 full	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 full	cop
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eat	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 fibre	case
28	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fibre	compound
29	fibre	fibre	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 full	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	can	a adult elephant	100 kilograms of food	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=Patient
2	digest	present	a adult elephant not said here	half of half			tree rules
3	is	present	half's dung			of plant fibre; full property	tree rules

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:10.

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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