--- title: There is no good evidence that elephants fear mice in particular; a… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics description: There is no good evidence that elephants fear mice in particular; a TV test once showed an elephant stepping back from a mouse, but one test is not proof. Who acts: good evidence, elephants, TV test, elephant. 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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 (good evidence, elephants, TV test, elephant), 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:6 # text = There is no good evidence that elephants fear mice in particular; a TV test once showed an elephant stepping back from a mouse, but one test is not proof. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel 7 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 fear fear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 17 advmod _ _ 17 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 stepping step VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 back back ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 proof proof ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 . . 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 | **be** | present | no good evidence | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fear** | present | elephants | mice | | particular | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus | | 3 | **show** | past | a TV test | | a elephant | | | once *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient | | 4 | **step back** | gerund | a elephant *not said here* | | | | | from a mouse | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mouse=Trajectory | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | one test | | | | | proof *property* | tree rules | 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:6`. **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, 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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