The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 4

In cartoons an elephant shrieks and jumps on a stool when a mouse runs past, but real elephants are not afraid of mice; they may just step aside from anything that moves suddenly by their feet, as you would.

Who acts: elephant, mouse, real elephants, elephants · What happens: shriek, jump, run past, not be, step, move · To what, where: cartoons, stool

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 (elephant, mouse, real elephants, 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 cartoons	case
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shrieks	obl
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 elephant	det
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shrieks	nsubj
5	shrieks	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 jumps	cc
7	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shrieks	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 stool	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stool	det
10	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jumps	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 runs	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mouse	det
13	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 runs	nsubj
14	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 stool	acl:relcl
15	past	past	ADV	_	14 runs	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 afraid	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 afraid	cc
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 elephants	amod
19	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 afraid	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 afraid	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 afraid	advmod
22	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shrieks	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 mice	case
24	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 afraid	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 step	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 step	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 step	aux
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 step	advmod
29	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shrieks	conj
30	aside	aside	ADV	_	29 step	advmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 anything	case
32	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 aside	obl
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 moves	nsubj
34	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 anything	acl:relcl
35	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	34 moves	advmod
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 feet	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 feet	nmod:poss
38	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 moves	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 would	punct
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 would	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 would	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 step	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shrieks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	shriek	present	a elephant	cartoons		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location
2	jump	present	a elephant not said here	a stool		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stool=Trajectory
3	run past	present	a mouse		past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	present	real elephants		of mice; afraid property	tree rules
5	step	may	elephants = elephant		aside property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	move	present			by elephants's feet; suddenly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by foot=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:4.

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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