--- title: Ants living inside the thorns of some acacia trees swarm and bite th… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Ants living inside the thorns of some acacia trees swarm and bite the soft inside of an elephant's trunk, so elephants leave those trees alone. Who acts: Ants, elephants. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 17 Ants living inside the thorns of some acacia trees swarm and bite the soft inside of an elephant's trunk, so elephants leave those trees alone. **Who acts:** Ants, elephants · **What happens:** live, swarm, bite, leave · **To what, where:** thorns, soft inside, trees 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 (Ants, elephants), 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:17 # text = Ants living inside the thorns of some acacia trees swarm and bite the soft inside of an elephant's trunk, so elephants leave those trees alone. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 2 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 acl _ _ 3 inside inside ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 thorns thorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 8 acacia acacia NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 swarm swarm VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 inside inside NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 25 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 alone alone ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | gerund | Ants *not said here* | | | the thorns of some acacia trees | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside thorn=Location | | 2 | **swarm** | present | Ants | | | | | | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bite** | present | Ants *not said here* | soft inside of a elephant's trunk | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inside=Patient | | 4 | **leave** | present | elephants | that trees | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | 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:17`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Myth check: are elephants scared of mi…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/16/) - next →: [Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/)