--- title: There is no real elephant graveyard; elephants die wherever they are… — The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle… · tree and pragmatics description: There is no real elephant graveyard; elephants die wherever they are, though bones may collect near water where weak old elephants stayed. Who acts: real elephant graveyard, elephants, bones, weak old elephants. 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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 (real elephant graveyard, elephants, bones, weak old elephants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:124-the-lion-king-real-lions.lesson:13 # text = There is no real elephant graveyard; elephants die wherever they are, though bones may collect near water where weak old elephants stayed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 124-the-lion-king-real-lions.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 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 graveyard graveyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 though though SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 collect collect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 18 near near ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 24 advmod _ _ 21 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | no real elephant graveyard | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **die** | present | elephants | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **does** | present | elephants *= elephant* | | | | | wherever *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **collect** | may | bones | | | water | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **stay** | past | weak old elephants | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:124-the-lion-king-real-lions.lesson:13`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Lion King: real lions, prides and…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/12/) - next →: [The Lion King: real lions, prides and…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/)