--- title: Mice do not crawl up elephant trunks either: the trunk is a mighty m… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Mice do not crawl up elephant trunks either: the trunk is a mighty muscular nose that blows dust and water over the elephant's back and could snort out any intruder. Who acts: Mice, trunk, mighty muscular nose. 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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 (Mice, trunk, mighty muscular nose), 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:3 # text = Mice do not crawl up elephant trunks either: the trunk is a mighty muscular nose that blows dust and water over the elephant's back and could snort out any intruder. # 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 1 Mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 crawl crawl VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 either either ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 muscular muscular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 over over ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 snort snort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 32 det _ _ 32 intruder intruder NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **not** **crawl up** | present · do-support | Mice | elephant trunks | | | | either *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location trunk=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | the trunk | a mighty muscular nose | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **blow** | present | a mighty muscular nose | dust and water | | the elephant's back | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent dust=Patient | | 4 | **snort out** | could | a mighty muscular nose *not said here* | any intruder | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intruder=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. 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