--- title: African elephants run from the buzz of angry bees, which sting the t… — Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and th… · tree and pragmatics description: African elephants run from the buzz of angry bees, which sting the trunk and around the eyes, so Kenyan farmers hang beehives on fences to protect crops. Who acts: African elephants, angry bees, Kenyan farmers. 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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 (African elephants, angry bees, Kenyan farmers), 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:14 # text = African elephants run from the buzz of angry bees, which sting the trunk and around the eyes, so Kenyan farmers hang beehives on fences to protect crops. # 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): no change 1 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 sting sting VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 around around ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 Kenyan Kenyan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hang hang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 beehives beehive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 fences fence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 29 crops crop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | present | African elephants | | | the buzz of angry bees | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from buzz=Trajectory | | 2 | **sting** | present | angry bees | the trunk and the eyes | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus trunk=Experiencer | | 3 | **hang** | present | Kenyan farmers | beehives | | fences | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beehive=Theme on fence=Destination | | 4 | **protect** | to-infinitive | Kenyan farmers *not said here* | crops | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Beneficiary | | 5 | **buzz** | | angry bees | | | | | | nom buzz «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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:14`. **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. 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