--- title: Tusks are very long front teeth made of ivory that keep growing all… — Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory · tree and pragmatics description: Tusks are very long front teeth made of ivory that keep growing all through the elephant's life, but a tusk pulled out at the root never grows back. Who acts: Tusks, long front teeth, root. 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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, long front teeth, root), 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:9 # text = Tusks are very long front teeth made of ivory that keep growing all through the elephant's life, but a tusk pulled out at the root never grows back. # 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 ×2 1 Tusks tusk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 ivory ivory NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl 12 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 xcomp _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 obj _ _ 14 through through ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 tusk tusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Tusks | long front teeth | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | long front teeth *not said here* | | | | of ivory | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **keep** | present | long front teeth | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | gerund | long front teeth *not said here* | all | | the elephant's life | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme | | 5 | **pull out** | participle · passive | | a tusk | | the root | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **grow back** | present | the root *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:022-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory.lesson:9`. **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 ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Elephants: families, tusks, ears and m…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/8/) - next →: [Elephants: families, tusks, ears and m…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/)