The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 17
Elephants swim well, using the trunk held above the water like a snorkel.
Who acts: Elephants · What happens: swim, use, hold · To what, where: trunk, water
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), 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 swim | nsubj |
| 2 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 swim | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 using | punct |
| 5 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 swim | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trunk | det |
| 7 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 using | obj |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 trunk | acl |
| 9 | above | above | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | obl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 snorkel | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 snorkel | det |
| 14 | snorkel | snorkel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 water | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | present | Elephants | well property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | gerund | Elephants not said here | the trunk | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hold | participle | the trunk not said here | the water like a snorkel | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above water=Location |
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:17.
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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