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title: Elephants greet and comfort each other by touching faces and twistin… — Elephants: the trunk and everything it does · tree and pragmatics
description: Elephants greet and comfort each other by touching faces and twisting their trunks together. Who acts: Elephants. A sentence of the lesson «Elephants: the trunk and everything it does» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 12

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Elephants greet and comfort each other by touching faces and twisting their trunks together.

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**Who acts:** Elephants · **What happens:** greet, comfort, touch, twist · **To what, where:** each, faces, trunks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Elephants: the trunk and everything it does» 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 (Elephants), 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:12
# text = Elephants greet and comfort each other by touching faces and twisting their trunks together.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	greet	greet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	comfort	comfort	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
5	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	4	obj	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	twisting	twist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | Elephants |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **comfort** | present | Elephants *not said here* | each |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus each=Experiencer |
| 3 | **touch** | gerund | Elephants *not said here* | faces |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **twist** | gerund | Elephants *not said here* | faces's trunks |  |  |  | together *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme |

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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.

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**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:12`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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