--- title: An elephant brain weighs about 5 kilograms, the largest of any land… — Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and th… · tree and pragmatics description: An elephant brain weighs about 5 kilograms, the largest of any land animal, but a big body needs a big brain, so size alone does not show cleverness. Who acts: elephant brain, big body, size. 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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 brain, big body, size), 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:15 # text = An elephant brain weighs about 5 kilograms, the largest of any land animal, but a big body needs a big brain, so size alone does not show cleverness. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 3 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:appos 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 13 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 26 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 alone alone ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 28 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 31 cleverness cleverness NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **weigh** | present | a elephant brain | 5 kilograms | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value | | 2 | **need** | present | a big body | a big brain | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot brain=Theme | | 3 | **not** **show** | present · do-support | size | cleverness | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cleverness=Recipient | 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: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): R5-strong ×4, 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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