--- title: Elephants are not terrified of mice, lions do not chase mice for din… — Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Elephants are not terrified of mice, lions do not chase mice for dinner, ostriches do not bury their heads, lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose, bats are not blind and goldfish remember for months: a good scientist checks a story before repeating it. 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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 (Elephants, lions, ostriches, lemmings), 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:3 # text = Elephants are not terrified of mice, lions do not chase mice for dinner, ostriches do not bury their heads, lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose, bats are not blind and goldfish remember for months: a good scientist checks a story before repeating it. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 terrified terrified ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 12 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 ostriches ostrich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 17 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 27 off off ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 goldfish goldfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 41 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 before before SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 49 repeating repeat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 45 advcl _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **not** **is** | present | Elephants | | | | | of mice; terrified *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **chase** | present · do-support | lions | mice | | | | for dinner | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 3 | **not** **bury** | present · do-support | ostriches | ostriches's heads | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 4 | **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 | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | bats | | | | | blind *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **remember** | present | goldfish | | | | month | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **check** | present | a good scientist | a story | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | | 8 | **repeat** | gerund | a good scientist *not said here* | scientist | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:3`. **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. **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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