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title: An elephant mother is pregnant for about 22 months, the longest of a… — Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory · tree and pragmatics
description: An elephant mother is pregnant for about 22 months, the longest of any land animal, and the calf weighs about 100 kilograms at birth. Who acts: elephant mother, calf. A sentence of the lesson «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory, sentence 7

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An elephant mother is pregnant for about 22 months, the longest of any land animal, and the calf weighs about 100 kilograms at birth.

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**Who acts:** elephant mother, calf · **What happens:** be, weigh · **To what, where:** 100 kilograms, birth

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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 (elephant mother, calf), 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:7
# text = An elephant mother is pregnant for about 22 months, the longest of any land animal, and the calf weighs about 100 kilograms at birth.
# 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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	pregnant	pregnant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
23	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | a elephant mother |  |  |  | month | pregnant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **weigh** | present | the calf | 100 kilograms |  | birth |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent kilogram=Theme at birth=Value |

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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:7`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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