The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 6

Elephants are not afraid of mice; they cannot see well right by their feet, so a sudden movement there can startle them, but terror is a cartoon joke.

Who acts: Elephants, sudden movement, terror · What happens: not be, not see, startle, be · To what, where: elephants, cartoon joke

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, sudden movement, terror), 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	4 afraid	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 afraid	advmod
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mice	case
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 afraid	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 see	advmod
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 afraid	parataxis
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 see	advmod
13	right	right	ADV	_	16 feet	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 feet	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 feet	nmod:poss
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 see	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 startle	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	24 startle	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 movement	det
20	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 movement	amod
21	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 startle	nsubj
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 movement	advmod
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 startle	aux
24	startle	startle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 see	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 startle	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 joke	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 joke	cc
28	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 joke	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 joke	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 joke	det
31	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 joke	compound
32	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afraid	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Elephants		of mice; afraid property	tree rules
2	not see	can	elephants = elephant		by elephants's feet; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	startle	can	a sudden movement	elephants = elephant		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
4	is a	present	terror	a cartoon joke		tree rules

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:6.

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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