--- title: The tip of the trunk is as sensitive as our fingertips, so elephants… — Elephants: the trunk and everything it does · tree and pragmatics description: The tip of the trunk is as sensitive as our fingertips, so elephants tap and feel things to test them, such as whether ground is safe. Who acts: tip, elephants, ground. 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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 (tip, elephants, ground), 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:18 # text = The tip of the trunk is as sensitive as our fingertips, so elephants tap and feel things to test them, such as whether ground is safe. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 as as ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 sensitive sensitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 fingertips fingertip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 tap tap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 18 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 test test VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:xcomp 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 26 case _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 25 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 26 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obl 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the tip of the trunk | | | | | as our fingertips; sensitive *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tap** | present | elephants | | | | | | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **feel** | present | elephants *not said here* | things | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 4 | **test** | to-infinitive | elephants *not said here* | things *= thing* | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | ground | | | | | safe *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:18`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Elephants: the trunk and everything it…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/17/) - next →: [Elephants: the trunk and everything it…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/)