The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 12

Elephants are pregnant for about 22 months, longer than any other land animal, and a newborn weighs about 100 kilograms and often walks under its mother's belly for shade and safety.

Who acts: Elephants, newborn · What happens: be, weigh, walk · To what, where: 100 kilograms, belly

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 (Elephants, newborn), 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	3 pregnant	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pregnant	cop
3	pregnant	pregnant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 months	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 22	advmod
6	22	22	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 months	nummod
7	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pregnant	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 longer	punct
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 pregnant	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	14 animal	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 animal	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 animal	amod
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 animal	compound
14	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 longer	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 weighs	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 weighs	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 newborn	det
18	newborn	newborn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 weighs	nsubj
19	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pregnant	conj
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 100	advmod
21	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 kilograms	nummod
22	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 weighs	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 walks	cc
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 walks	advmod
25	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 weighs	conj
26	under	under	ADP	_	30 belly	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mother	nmod:poss
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 belly	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 mother	case
30	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 walks	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 shade	case
32	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 walks	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 safety	cc
34	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shade	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pregnant	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Elephants			month	long, pregnant property	tree rules
2	weigh	present	a newborn	100 kilograms				vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value
3	walk	present	a newborn not said here		newborn's mother's belly		for shade and safety; often property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under belly=Trajectory

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:12.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×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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