--- title: Myths put right this year: elephants are not afraid of mice (though… — Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Myths put right this year: elephants are not afraid of mice (though any small sudden thing may startle them), lions do not hunt mice, ostriches do not bury their heads, lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose, bats are not blind and goldfish remember for months. 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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 (Myths, elephants, small sudden thing, lions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson:14 # text = Myths put right this year: elephants are not afraid of mice (though any small sudden thing may startle them), lions do not hunt mice, ostriches do not bury their heads, lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose, bats are not blind and goldfish remember for months. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.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): no change 1 Myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 right right ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 14 though though SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 15 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 startle startle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 28 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 ostriches ostrich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 38 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 41 off off ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj _ _ 47 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 48 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 49 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 goldfish goldfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nsubj _ _ 52 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 conj _ _ 53 for for ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | Myths | | | | year | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | elephants | | | | | of mice; afraid *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **startle** | may | any small sudden thing | Elephants *= elephant* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 4 | **not** **hunt** | present · do-support | lions | mice | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 5 | **not** **bury** | present · do-support | ostriches | zoos's heads | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 6 | **not** **jump off** | present · do-support | lemmings | cliffs | | purpose | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cliff=Theme on purpose=Trajectory | | 7 | **not** **is** | present | bats | | | | | blind *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **remember** | present | goldfish | | | | month | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: 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](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:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.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): 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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