--- title: Elephants see poorly and can be startled by anything small that dart… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Elephants see poorly and can be startled by anything small that darts suddenly near their feet: a mouse, a bird or a plastic bag blowing past. Who acts: Elephants, plastic bag. 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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 (Elephants, plastic bag), 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:2 # text = Elephants see poorly and can be startled by anything small that darts suddenly near their feet: a mouse, a bird or a plastic bag blowing past. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 poorly poorly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 startled startle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 obl _ _ 10 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 darts dart VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 near near ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 27 blowing blow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 acl _ _ 28 past past ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | Elephants | | | | | poorly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **startle** | can · passive | Elephants *not said here* | | | | | by anything | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 3 | **dart** | present | | | | cartoons's feet | | suddenly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near foot=Trajectory | | 4 | **blow past** | gerund | a plastic bag *not said here* | | | | | past *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | 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:2`. **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 ×1, 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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