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title: Elephant families walk behind the matriarch along old paths that lea… — Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Elephant families walk behind the matriarch along old paths that lead to water, salt licks and fruit trees. Who acts: Elephant families, old paths. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 13

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Elephant families walk behind the matriarch along old paths that lead to water, salt licks and fruit trees.

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**Who acts:** Elephant families, old paths · **What happens:** walk, lead · **To what, where:** matriarch

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the 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 (Elephant families, old paths), 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:13
# text = Elephant families walk behind the matriarch along old paths that lead to water, salt licks and fruit trees.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	matriarch	matriarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	licks	lick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **walk** | present | Elephant families |  |  | the matriarch |  | along old paths | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind matriarch=Trajectory |
| 2 | **lead** | present | old paths |  |  |  |  | to water and salt licks and fruit trees | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to water=Patient |

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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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**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): R8-pos-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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