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title: The trumpet call is air blasted out through the trunk; elephants als… — Elephants: the trunk and everything it does · tree and pragmatics
description: The trumpet call is air blasted out through the trunk; elephants also make deep rumbles other elephants feel through their feet. Who acts: elephants, other elephants. A sentence of the lesson «Elephants: the trunk and everything it does» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 17

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The trumpet call is air blasted out through the trunk; elephants also make deep rumbles other elephants feel through their feet.

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**Who acts:** elephants, other elephants · **What happens:** blast out, make, feel · **To what, where:** trumpet call, trunk, deep rumbles, feet

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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, other 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:17
# text = The trumpet call is air blasted out through the trunk; elephants also make deep rumbles other elephants feel through their feet.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	air	air	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	blasted	blast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rumbles	rumble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **blast out** | present · passive |  | the trumpet call |  | the trunk |  | air *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | elephants | deep rumbles |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumble=Product |
| 3 | **feel** | present | other elephants | deep rumbles *not said here* |  | trunk's feet |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rumble=Theme through foot=Location |

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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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**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): no change. **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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