The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 9
Hay nets hung high make elephants stretch and pick as they would from trees; wild elephants feed for up to 16 hours a day.
Who acts: Hay nets, elephants, wild elephants · What happens: hung, make, stretch, pick, feed · To what, where: Hay nets, elephants
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 (Hay nets, elephants, wild 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 | Hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nets | compound |
| 2 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hung | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 nets | acl |
| 4 | high | high | ADV | _ | 3 hung | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pick | cc |
| 9 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stretch | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 would | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 would | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pick | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 would | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 feed | punct |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 elephants | amod |
| 17 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 feed | nsubj |
| 18 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 hours | case |
| 20 | up | up | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 16 | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 up | fixed |
| 22 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 hours | nummod |
| 23 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 feed | obl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hours | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hung | participle | Hay nets not said here | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Hay nets | elephants | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stretch | infinitive | elephants not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | pick | infinitive | elephants not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | feed | present | wild elephants | hour | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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