--- title: Baby elephants stay close to mothers and aunts, who circle them when… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Baby elephants stay close to mothers and aunts, who circle them when lions or hyenas come; babies suck their trunks for comfort. Who acts: Baby elephants, mothers, lions, babies. 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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 (Baby elephants, mothers, lions, babies), 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:16 # text = Baby elephants stay close to mothers and aunts, who circle them when lions or hyenas come; babies suck their trunks for comfort. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 aunts aunt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 circle circle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 14 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 hyenas hyena NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 suck suck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 comfort comfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | present | Baby elephants | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **circle** | present | mothers and aunts | trunks *= trunk* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | | 3 | **come** | present | lions or hyenas | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **suck** | present | babies | trunks's trunks | | | | for comfort | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent trunk=Source | 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:16`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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