--- title: Some farmers smear fences with chilli and grease or burn chilli bric… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Some farmers smear fences with chilli and grease or burn chilli bricks, because chilli stings elephants' sensitive trunks. Who acts: farmers, chilli. 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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 (farmers, chilli), 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:15 # text = Some farmers smear fences with chilli and grease or burn chilli bricks, because chilli stings elephants' sensitive trunks. # 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): no change 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 smear smear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 fences fence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 chilli chilli NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 grease grease NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 burn burn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 chilli chilli NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 bricks brick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 chilli chilli NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stings sting VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 17 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod:poss _ _ 18 ' 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 sensitive sensitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **smear** | present | some farmers | fences | | | | with chilli and grease | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent fence=Destination with chilli=Theme | | 2 | **burn** | present | some farmers *not said here* | chilli bricks | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brick=Theme | | 3 | **sting** | present | chilli | elephants's sensitive trunks | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus trunk=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. 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