--- title: Cartoons show elephants drinking through the trunk like a straw and… — Elephants: the trunk and everything it does · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons show elephants drinking through the trunk like a straw and blowing water out like a fireman; the second part is right, but the water goes up the trunk, stops, and is blown into the mouth. Who acts: Cartoons, elephants, second part, water. 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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 (Cartoons, elephants, second part, water), 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:4 # text = Cartoons show elephants drinking through the trunk like a straw and blowing water out like a fireman; the second part is right, but the water goes up the trunk, stops, and is blown into the mouth. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 drinking drink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 blowing blow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fireman fireman NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 21 amod _ _ 21 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 blown blow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 parataxis _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Cartoons | | elephants | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient | | 2 | **drink** | gerund | elephants *not said here* | | | the trunk | | like a straw | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **blow out** | gerund | elephants *not said here* | water | | | | like a fireman | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | the second part | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **go up** | present | the water | the trunk | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient trunk=Extent | | 6 | **stop** | present | the water *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **blow** | present · passive | | | | the mouth | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: into mouth=Product | 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:4`. **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): 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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/3/) - next →: [Elephants: the trunk and everything it…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/)