The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 5
Elephant herds are led by the oldest female, the matriarch; grown-up males leave as teenagers and live alone or in groups of young bulls.
Who acts: oldest female, grown males · What happens: lead, grow up, leave, live · To what, where: Elephant herds
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 (oldest female, grown males), 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 | Elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 herds | compound |
| 2 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 led | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | aux:pass |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 female | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 female | det |
| 7 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 female | amod |
| 8 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl:agent |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 matriarch | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 matriarch | det |
| 11 | matriarch | matriarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 female | appos |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 leave | punct |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 males | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 up | punct |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 grown | compound:prt |
| 16 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 leave | nsubj |
| 17 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | parataxis |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 teenagers | case |
| 19 | teenagers | teenager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 leave | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 live | cc |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 leave | conj |
| 22 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 21 live | advmod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 groups | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 groups | case |
| 25 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 live | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 bulls | case |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bulls | amod |
| 28 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 groups | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present · passive | the oldest female | Elephant herds | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | leave | present | grown males | as teenagers | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live | present | grown males not said here | alone property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:5.
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): 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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