--- title: Elephants see poorly and are startled by sudden small movements near… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Elephants see poorly and are startled by sudden small movements near their feet, whether a mouse, a bird or a plastic bag; horses shy at bags too. Who acts: Elephants, sudden small movements, horses. 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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, sudden small movements, horses), 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:7 # text = Elephants see poorly and are startled by sudden small movements near their feet, whether a mouse, a bird or a plastic bag; horses shy at bags too. # 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 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 _ _ 3 poorly poorly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 startled startle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 near near ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 shy shy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 30 too too ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 31 . . 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** | present · passive | sudden small movements near movements's feet | | | | | whether a mouse and a bird or a plastic bag | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **shy** | present | horses | | | bags | | | 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:7`. **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. **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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