--- title: Think of a family trip led by Nan, who has done the drive for fifty… — Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a family trip led by Nan, who has done the drive for fifty years: in a drought, the matriarch remembers a waterhole the herd hasn't visited for years and leads them all there. Who acts: you, Nan, matriarch, waterhole. 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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, Nan, matriarch, waterhole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:022-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory.lesson:1 # text = Think of a family trip led by Nan, who has done the drive for fifty years: in a drought, the matriarch remembers a waterhole the herd hasn't visited for years and leads them all there. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 022-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory.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 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Nan Nan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl:agent _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 drive drive NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 drought drought NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 matriarch matriarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 waterhole waterhole NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 visited visit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:ccomp 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 leads lead VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 all all ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 40 . . 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 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a family trip | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lead** | participle | | a family trip *not said here* | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 3 | **do** | present · perfect | Nan | the drive | | | year | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drive=Eventuality | | 4 | **remember** | present | the matriarch | a waterhole | | a drought | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent waterhole=Theme | | 5 | **not** **visit** | present · perfect · passive | a waterhole *not said here* | the herd | | | year | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | | 6 | **lead** | present | a waterhole *not said here* | babies *= baby* | | there | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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. 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