--- title: Elephants really avoid bees: at the buzz of an angry swarm they shak… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Elephants really avoid bees: at the buzz of an angry swarm they shake their heads, walk away and warn each other with a special rumble. Who acts: Elephants, bees, angry swarm. 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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, bees, angry swarm), 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:9 # text = Elephants really avoid bees: at the buzz of an angry swarm they shake their heads, walk away and warn each other with a special rumble. # 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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 really really ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 swarm swarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 shake shake VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis 19 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 21 warn warn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 21 obj _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 fixed _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 rumble rumble NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **avoid** | present | Elephants | bees | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent bee=Location | | 2 | **shake** | present | bees *= bee* | bees's heads | | the buzz of a angry swarm | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme at buzz=Trajectory | | 3 | **walk away** | present | bees *= bee* *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | bees *= bee* *not said here* | each | | | | with a special rumble | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient | | 5 | **buzz** | | a angry swarm | | | | | | nom buzz «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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:9`. **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, 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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