--- title: An elephant has one trunk, two ears, four legs, two eyes and one hea… — Elephants: the trunk and everything it does · tree and pragmatics description: An elephant has one trunk, two ears, four legs, two eyes and one heart, but the trunk is the part that does almost everything: it is a nose, a hand, a hose, a snorkel and a trumpet all at once. Who acts: elephant, trunk, part. 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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 (elephant, trunk, part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:021-elephants-the-trunk.lesson:0 # text = An elephant has one trunk, two ears, four legs, two eyes and one heart, but the trunk is the part that does almost everything: it is a nose, a hand, a hose, a snorkel and a trumpet all at once. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 021-elephants-the-trunk.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 almost almost ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 26 obj _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 parataxis _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 hose hose NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 snorkel snorkel NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 trumpet trumpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 46 all all ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 47 at at ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 46 obl _ _ 49 . . 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 | **have** | present | a elephant | one trunk and two ears and four legs and two eyes and one heart | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | the trunk | the part | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | present | the part | everything | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | | 4 | **is a** | present | elephant | a nose and a hand and a hose | | | | all *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:021-elephants-the-trunk.lesson:0`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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: [Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the ho…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/17/) - next →: [Elephants: the trunk and everything it…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/)