--- title: Then it sucks up about 8 litres of water, squirts it into its mouth… — Elephants: the trunk and everything it does · tree and pragmatics description: Then it sucks up about 8 litres of water, squirts it into its mouth like a hose, and afterwards throws dust over its back as sunscreen and bug spray. Who acts: mouth. A sentence of the lesson «Elephants: the trunk and everything it does» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Elephants: the trunk and everything it…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/) / 3 # Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 3 Then it sucks up about 8 litres of water, squirts it into its mouth like a hose, and afterwards throws dust over its back as sunscreen and bug spray. **Who acts:** mouth · **What happens:** suck up, squirt, throw · **To what, where:** 8 litres, mouth, dust, back 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 (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:3 # text = Then it sucks up about 8 litres of water, squirts it into its mouth like a hose, and afterwards throws dust over its back as sunscreen and bug spray. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sucks suck VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 squirts squirt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hose hose NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 over over ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 sunscreen sunscreen NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:compound 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 bug bug NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 spray spray NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 32 . . 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 | **suck up** | present | mouth | 8 litres of water | | | then | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent litre=Source | | 2 | **squirt** | present | mouth *not said here* | mouth | | mouth's mouth | | like a hose | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into mouth=Destination | | 3 | **throw** | present | mouth *not said here* | dust | | mouth's back | | sunscreen and bug and spray *obl*; afterwards *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent dust=Theme over back=Destination | 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:3`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/2/) - next →: [Elephants: the trunk and everything it…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/)