--- title: Mice do not crawl up elephant trunks; the trunk's strong muscles cou… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Mice do not crawl up elephant trunks; the trunk's strong muscles could blow anything out with a huge snort. Who acts: Mice, strong muscles. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Myth check: are elephants scared of mi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/) / 8 # Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 8 Mice do not crawl up elephant trunks; the trunk's strong muscles could blow anything out with a huge snort. **Who acts:** Mice, strong muscles · **What happens:** not crawl up, blow out · **To what, where:** elephant trunks, anything 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 (Mice, strong muscles), 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:8 # text = Mice do not crawl up elephant trunks; the trunk's strong muscles could blow anything out with a huge snort. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×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 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 16 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obj _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 snort snort NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **crawl up** | present · do-support | Mice | elephant trunks | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location trunk=Theme | | 2 | **blow out** | could | the trunk's strong muscles | anything | | | | with a huge snort | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent anything=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice.lesson:8`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Myth check: are elephants scared of mi…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/7/) - next →: [Myth check: are elephants scared of mi…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/)