--- title: Elephants feel deep rumbles from far-off elephants through their fee… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Elephants feel deep rumbles from far-off elephants through their feet and trunks, and make many sounds too low for people to hear. Who acts: Elephants, people. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Myth check: are elephants scared of mi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/) / 11 # Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 11 Elephants feel deep rumbles from far-off elephants through their feet and trunks, and make many sounds too low for people to hear. **Who acts:** Elephants, people · **What happens:** feel, make, hear · **To what, where:** deep rumbles, many sounds This is a sentence of the lesson «Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elephants, people), 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:11 # text = Elephants feel deep rumbles from far-off elephants through their feet and trunks, and make many sounds too low for people to hear. # 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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 rumbles rumble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 off off ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 10 through through ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 22 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:acl 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | Elephants | deep rumbles | | | | from elephants through bees's feet and trunks | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumble=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | Elephants *not said here* | many sounds | | | | low *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | | 3 | **hear** | to-infinitive | people | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | 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:11`. **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 ×4, R8-pos-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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