--- title: Elephants touch and smell the bones of dead elephants; scientists th… — Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory · tree and pragmatics description: Elephants touch and smell the bones of dead elephants; scientists think they know these are their own kind, but nobody knows exactly what they feel. Who acts: Elephants, scientists, these, nobody. 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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 (Elephants, scientists, these, nobody), 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:16 # text = Elephants touch and smell the bones of dead elephants; scientists think they know these are their own kind, but nobody knows exactly what they feel. # 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): no change 1 Elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 smell smell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 15 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 19 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 23 nsubj _ _ 23 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 24 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 obj _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | present | Elephants | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **smell** | present | Elephants *not said here* | the bones of dead elephants | | | | | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Stimulus | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **know** | present | scientists *= scientist* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is a** | present | these | scientists's own kind | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **know** | present | nobody | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **feel** | present | scientists *= scientist* | | | | | exactly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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