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title: Elephants are trained to present an ear, foot or trunk, so vets can… — Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals bus… · tree and pragmatics
description: Elephants are trained to present an ear, foot or trunk, so vets can take blood from the big veins behind the ear and test water blown out of the trunk for germs. Who acts: Elephants, vets, water. A sentence of the lesson «Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy» of the biology 
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# Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy, sentence 14

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Elephants are trained to present an ear, foot or trunk, so vets can take blood from the big veins behind the ear and test water blown out of the trunk for germs.

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**Who acts:** Elephants, vets, water · **What happens:** train, present, take, test, blow out · **To what, where:** Elephants, ear, blood, big veins, trunk

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy» 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, vets, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:112-training-and-enrichment.lesson:14
# text = Elephants are trained to present an ear, foot or trunk, so vets can take blood from the big veins behind the ear and test water blown out of the trunk for germs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 112-training-and-enrichment.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
14	vets	vet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
17	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | present · passive |  | Elephants |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **present** | to-infinitive | Elephants *not said here* | a ear and foot or trunk |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | can | vets | blood |  | the big veins behind the ear and water |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent blood=Theme from vein=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **test** | infinitive | vets *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **blow out** | participle | water *not said here* | the trunk for germs |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:112-training-and-enrichment.lesson:14`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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