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title: There is no good evidence that real elephants are especially afraid… — Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and… · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no good evidence that real elephants are especially afraid of mice. Who acts: good evidence, real elephants. A sentence of the lesson «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 5

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There is no good evidence that real elephants are especially afraid of mice.

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**Who acts:** good evidence, real elephants · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** good evidence

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth» 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 (good evidence, real elephants), 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:5
# text = There is no good evidence that real elephants are especially afraid of mice.
# 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): no change
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	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | 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; afraid, especially *property* | 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:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.lesson:5`.

**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): no change. **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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