--- title: Tusks are two very long front teeth made of ivory that grow all life… — Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory · tree and pragmatics description: Tusks are two very long front teeth made of ivory that grow all life long, and elephants are left- or right-tusked, just as you are left- or right-handed. Who acts: Tusks, two long front teeth. 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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 (Tusks, two long front teeth), 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:3 # text = Tusks are two very long front teeth made of ivory that grow all life long, and elephants are left- or right-tusked, just as you are left- or right-handed. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Tusks tusk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 6 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 ivory ivory NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 18 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nmod:unmarked _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 tusked tusk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 27 just just ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 advcl _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 compound _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 handed hand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Tusks | two long front teeth | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | two long front teeth *not said here* | | | | of ivory | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **grow** | present | two long front teeth | | | | | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **leave** | present · passive | | elephants | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **tusk** | participle | | right | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **leave** | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **hand** | participle | | | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:022-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory.lesson:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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