The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 7
Modern elephant houses have deep sand and heated floors, because years on hard concrete hurt elephants' feet and joints.
Who acts: Modern elephant houses, years · What happens: have, heat, hurt · To what, where: deep sand, feet
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 (Modern elephant houses, years), 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 | Modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 houses | amod |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 houses | compound |
| 3 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sand | amod |
| 6 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 floors | cc |
| 8 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 floors | amod |
| 9 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sand | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 years | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 hurt | mark |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hurt | nsubj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 concrete | case |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 concrete | amod |
| 15 | concrete | concrete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 years | nmod |
| 16 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | advcl |
| 17 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 17 elephants | case |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hurt | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 joints | cc |
| 21 | joints | joint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 feet | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Modern elephant houses | deep sand and heated floors | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | heat | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | hurt | present | years on hard concrete | elephants's feet and joints | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Patient |
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:7.
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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