---
title: In a drought in Tanzania, herds with older matriarchs who remembered… — Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a drought in Tanzania, herds with older matriarchs who remembered an earlier drought survived better. Who acts: older matriarchs, herds. 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 dependency tree 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth/5/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Animal minds: elephants' memory, feeli…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth/) / 5

# Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 5

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In a drought in Tanzania, herds with older matriarchs who remembered an earlier drought survived better.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** older matriarchs, herds · **What happens:** remember, survive · **To what, where:** earlier drought, drought

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (older matriarchs, herds), 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:5
# text = In a drought in Tanzania, herds with older matriarchs who remembered an earlier drought survived better.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	drought	drought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Tanzania	Tanzania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	matriarchs	matriarch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	drought	drought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | older matriarchs | a earlier drought |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent drought=Theme |
| 2 | **survive** | past | herds with older matriarchs |  |  | a drought in Tanzania |  | well *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drought=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:5`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Animal minds: elephants' memory, feeli…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth/4/)
- next →: [Animal minds: elephants' memory, feeli…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth/6/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth/)