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title: The trunk is the elephant's nose and upper lip joined together and g… — Elephants: the trunk and everything it does · tree and pragmatics
description: The trunk is the elephant's nose and upper lip joined together and grown very long. Who acts: trunk, nose. A sentence of the lesson «Elephants: the trunk and everything it does» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Elephants: the trunk and everything it does, sentence 5

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The trunk is the elephant's nose and upper lip joined together and grown very long.

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**Who acts:** trunk, nose · **What happens:** be, join, grow · **To what, where:** nose

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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 (trunk, nose), 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:5
# text = The trunk is the elephant's nose and upper lip joined together and grown very long.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the trunk | the elephant's nose and upper lip |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **join** | past | the elephant's nose and upper lip *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | participle | the elephant's nose and upper lip *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:5`.

**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/).

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