--- title: In cartoons, a huge elephant screams and leaps onto a stool at the s… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics description: In cartoons, a huge elephant screams and leaps onto a stool at the sight of a tiny mouse; in Dumbo, a whole row of elephant ladies panics at Timothy the mouse. Who acts: huge elephant, whole row. 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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 (huge elephant, whole row), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice.lesson:0 # text = In cartoons, a huge elephant screams and leaps onto a stool at the sight of a tiny mouse; in Dumbo, a whole row of elephant ladies panics at Timothy the mouse. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 5 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 6 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 screams scream VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 leaps leap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 onto onto ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 stool stool NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Dumbo Dumbo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 panics panic VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Timothy Timothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scream** *speech: express* | present | a huge elephant | | | cartoons | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location | | 2 | **leap** | present | a huge elephant *not said here* | | | a stool at the sight of a tiny mouse | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto stool=Trajectory | | 3 | **panic** | present | a whole row of elephant ladies | the mouse | | Dumbo | | at Timothy | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient | | 4 | **sight** | | | a tiny mouse | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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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