--- title: There is no good evidence that real elephants are especially scared… — Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and… · tree and pragmatics description: There is no good evidence that real elephants are especially scared of mice; like many animals, they may startle at any small sudden movement near their feet. Who acts: good evidence, real elephants, mice. 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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 (good evidence, real elephants, mice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.lesson:15 # text = There is no good evidence that real elephants are especially scared of mice; like many animals, they may startle at any small sudden movement near their feet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 especially especially ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 acl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 startle startle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 22 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 24 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 near near ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 . . 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 | **be** | present | no good evidence | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | real elephants | no good evidence *not said here* | | | | of mice; especially, scared *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **startle** | may | mice *= mouse* | | | any small sudden movement near mice's feet | | like many animals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.lesson:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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. 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