--- title: What elephants really fear is the buzzing of angry bees, which can s… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics description: What elephants really fear is the buzzing of angry bees, which can sting the soft skin inside the trunk and round the eyes. Who acts: elephants, angry bees. 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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, angry bees), 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:4 # text = What elephants really fear is the buzzing of angry bees, which can sting the soft skin inside the trunk and round the eyes. # 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 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 really really ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 fear fear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 csubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 buzzing buzzing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 inside inside ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 round round VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fear** | present | elephants | the buzzing | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | | the buzzing | | | | of angry bees | tree rules | | 3 | **sting** | can | angry bees | the soft skin | | the trunk | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus skin=Experiencer | | 4 | **round** | infinitive | angry bees *not said here* | the eyes | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=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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