The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 15

Elephants talk with very low rumbles that travel far, and they may feel them through their feet as well as hear them.

Who acts: Elephants, low rumbles · What happens: talk, travel, feel, hear · To what, where: ears, feet, elephants

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, low rumbles), 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	2 talk	nsubj
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 rumbles	case
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 low	advmod
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rumbles	amod
6	rumbles	rumble	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talk	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 travel	nsubj
8	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rumbles	acl:relcl
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 travel	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 feel	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 feel	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 feel	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 feel	aux
14	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 feel	obj
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 feet	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feet	nmod:poss
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 feel	obl
19	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	22 hear	advmod
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 as	fixed
21	as	as	ADP	_	19 as	fixed
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 feel	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hear	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	present	Elephants			with low rumbles	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rumble=Co-Agent
2	travel	present	low rumbles			far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feel	may	elephants = elephant	ears = ear	elephants's feet		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme through foot=Location
4	hear	infinitive	elephants = elephant not said here	elephants = elephant			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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:15.

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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