--- title: Elephants have excellent memories: old female leaders remember dista… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Elephants have excellent memories: old female leaders remember distant water in droughts and recognise friends after many years. Who acts: Elephants, old female leaders. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 12 Elephants have excellent memories: old female leaders remember distant water in droughts and recognise friends after many years. **Who acts:** Elephants, old female leaders · **What happens:** have, remember, recognise · **To what, where:** excellent memories, distant water, droughts, friends 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, old female leaders), 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:12 # text = Elephants have excellent memories: old female leaders remember distant water in droughts and recognise friends after many years. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 memories memory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 10 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 droughts drought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 recognise recognise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **have** | present | Elephants | excellent memories | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient | | 2 | **remember** | present | old female leaders | distant water | | droughts | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 3 | **recognise** | present | old female leaders *not said here* | friends | | | year | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus | 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:12`. **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, 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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