--- title: There is no good evidence that elephants fear mice; like us, they ma… — Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and th… · tree and pragmatics description: There is no good evidence that elephants fear mice; like us, they may be startled by any small thing moving suddenly near their feet. Who acts: good evidence, elephants, small thing. 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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 (good evidence, elephants, small thing), 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:6 # text = There is no good evidence that elephants fear mice; like us, they may be startled by any small thing moving suddenly near their feet. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 fear fear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl _ _ 9 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 startled startle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 18 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 20 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advcl 23 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 near near ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | no good evidence | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fear** | present | elephants | mice | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus | | 3 | **startle** | may · passive | any small thing | herds *= herd* | | | | like us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **move** | gerund | any small thing *not said here* | | | herds's feet | | suddenly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme near foot=Trajectory | 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:6`. **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 ×2, 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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