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title: In Kenya, farmers hang beehives along fences, and the elephants keep… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics
description: In Kenya, farmers hang beehives along fences, and the elephants keep away from their fields. Who acts: farmers, elephants. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 5

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In Kenya, farmers hang beehives along fences, and the elephants keep away from their fields.

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**Who acts:** farmers, elephants · **What happens:** hang, keep away · **To what, where:** beehives, Kenya

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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 (farmers, 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:5
# text = In Kenya, farmers hang beehives along fences, and the elephants keep away from their fields.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	beehives	beehive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | present | farmers | beehives |  | Kenya |  | along fences | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beehive=Theme in kenya=Destination |
| 2 | **keep away** | present | the elephants |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:5`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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