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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 (elephant, elephants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth.lesson:0 # text = «An elephant never forgets» is an old saying, and like many old sayings it is partly true: elephants have excellent memories, though not perfect ones. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 forgets forget VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 csubj _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 sayings saying NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 partly partly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis 21 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 24 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 memories memory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 though though SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 29 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **not** **forget** *in a quote* | present | a elephant | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a old saying | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | elephant | | | | | like many old sayings; partly, true *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | elephants | excellent memories | | | | perfect ones *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient | 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:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth.lesson:0`. **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. 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