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title: The elephant graveyard, a secret place where elephants go to die, is… — Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory · tree and pragmatics
description: The elephant graveyard, a secret place where elephants go to die, is a myth. Who acts: elephants, elephant graveyard. A sentence of the lesson «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory, sentence 17

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The elephant graveyard, a secret place where elephants go to die, is a myth.

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**Who acts:** elephants, elephant graveyard · **What happens:** go, die, be · **To what, where:** myth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» 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 (elephants, elephant graveyard), 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:17
# text = The elephant graveyard, a secret place where elephants go to die, is a myth.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **go** | present | elephants |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **die** | to-infinitive | elephants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the elephant graveyard | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:022-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory.lesson:17`.

**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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