--- title: There is no good evidence that elephants are especially afraid of mi… — Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, ele… · tree and pragmatics description: There is no good evidence that elephants are especially afraid of mice; they can be startled by any small thing that suddenly moves near their feet. Who acts: good evidence, elephants, small thing. 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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, small thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:8 # text = There is no good evidence that elephants are especially afraid of mice; they can be startled by any small thing that suddenly moves near their feet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.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 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 _ 10 mark _ _ 7 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 especially especially ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 acl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 startled startle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 18 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 20 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 near near ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | **is** | present | elephants | no good evidence *not said here* | | | | of mice; afraid, especially *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **startle** | can · passive | any small thing | cats *= cat* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **move** | present | any small thing | | | cats's feet | | suddenly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme near foot=Trajectory | 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. 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