--- title: It is not for tricks: an elephant that lifts its ear on cue lets the… — Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals bus… · tree and pragmatics description: It is not for tricks: an elephant that lifts its ear on cue lets the vet take blood without a fight, and an animal that touches a ball on a stick can be guided onto the scales. Who acts: animal, elephant, vet. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, elephant, vet), 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:4 # text = It is not for tricks: an elephant that lifts its ear on cue lets the vet take blood without a fight, and an animal that touches a ball on a stick can be guided onto the scales. # 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 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 lifts lift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 cue cue NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 without without ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 guided guide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 37 onto onto ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | animal | | | | | for tricks | tree rules | | 2 | **lift** | present | a elephant | animal's ear | | cue | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ear=Theme on cue=Destination | | 3 | **let** | present | a elephant | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | infinitive | the vet | blood | | | | without a fight | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | | 5 | **touch** | present | a animal | a ball | | a stick | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | | 6 | **guide** | can · passive | | a animal | | the scales | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme onto scale=Destination | 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](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. 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