--- title: Picture the zoo: the elephant reaches down, pinches one peanut with… — Elephants: the trunk and everything it does · tree and pragmatics description: Picture the zoo: the elephant reaches down, pinches one peanut with the tip of its trunk, curls it up and pops it into its mouth, because a short neck and a huge head mean the mouth can't reach the ground. Who acts: you, elephant, short neck, mouth. 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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 (you, elephant, short neck, mouth), 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:2 # text = Picture the zoo: the elephant reaches down, pinches one peanut with the tip of its trunk, curls it up and pops it into its mouth, because a short neck and a huge head mean the mouth can't reach the ground. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 8 down down ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 pinches pinch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 peanut peanut NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 curls curl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 24 pops pop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=33:cc 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 38 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 41 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 ccomp _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | the zoo | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent zoo=Theme | | 2 | **reach down** | present | the elephant | | | | | down *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pinch** | present | the elephant *not said here* | one peanut | | | | with the tip of elephant's trunk | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent peanut=Experiencer with tip=Instrument | | 4 | **curl up** | present | | elephant | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **pop** | present | | elephant | | | | into elephant's mouth *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into mouth=Result | | 6 | **mean** | infinitive | a short neck and a huge head | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **not** **reach** | can | the mouth | the ground | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=Theme | 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:2`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/1/) - next →: [Elephants: the trunk and everything it…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/)