The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 2

Stand still and you may feel a deep rumble more than hear it: elephants talk with sounds so low that some are below what our ears can catch, and they travel kilometres.

Who acts: you, elephants, some, ears · What happens: stand, feel, hear, talk, be, catch · To what, where: deep rumble, rumble, sounds, kilometres

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 (you, elephants, some, ears), 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	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	advcl
2	still	still	ADV	_	1 Stand	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 feel	cc
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 feel	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	aux
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rumble	det
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rumble	amod
9	rumble	rumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feel	obj
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 feel	advmod
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 hear	mark
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 feel	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hear	obj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 talk	punct
15	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 talk	nsubj
16	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	parataxis
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 sounds	case
18	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 talk	obl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 low	advmod
20	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sounds	amod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 what	mark
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 what	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 what	cop
24	below	below	ADP	_	25 what	case
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 low	ccomp
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ears	nmod:poss
27	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 catch	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 catch	aux
29	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 what	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 travel	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 travel	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 travel	nsubj
33	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 talk	conj
34	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 travel	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stand	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	infinitive	you not said here			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	may	you	a deep rumble				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumble=Theme
3	hear	infinitive	you not said here	rumble				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	talk	present	elephants				with sounds	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sound=Co-Agent
5	is	present	some		sounds			tree rules
6	catch	can	our ears					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	travel	present	ears = ear	kilometres				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kilometre=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:2.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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