--- title: Elephants often touch the bones of dead elephants gently with trunks… — Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and th… · tree and pragmatics description: Elephants often touch the bones of dead elephants gently with trunks and feet and pay much less attention to bones of other animals; scientists think they may feel something like grief. Who acts: Elephants, scientists. 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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 (Elephants, scientists), 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:4 # text = Elephants often touch the bones of dead elephants gently with trunks and feet and pay much less attention to bones of other animals; scientists think they may feel something like grief. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 gently gently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 much much ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 30 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 obj _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . 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 | **touch** | present | Elephants | the bones of dead elephants | | | | with trunks and feet; gently, often *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bone=Experiencer with trunk=Instrument | | 2 | **pay** | present | Elephants *not said here* | less attention | | | | to bones of other animals | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **feel** | may | scientists *= scientist* | something | | | | like grief | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | 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:4`. **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, 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. 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