--- title: Elephants in Kenya can tell the voices of Maasai men, who sometimes… — Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and th… · tree and pragmatics description: Elephants in Kenya can tell the voices of Maasai men, who sometimes hunt them, from the voices of women and boys, and they fear only the men's voices. Who acts: Elephants, Maasai men, voices. 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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, Maasai men, voices), 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:7 # text = Elephants in Kenya can tell the voices of Maasai men, who sometimes hunt them, from the voices of women and boys, and they fear only the men's voices. # 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 1 Elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Kenya Kenya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 Maasai maasai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 14 advmod _ _ 14 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 fear fear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | Elephants in Kenya | the voices of Maasai men | | the voices of women and boys | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent voice=Recipient | | 2 | **hunt** | present | Maasai men | voices *= voice* | | | | sometimes *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **fear** | present | voices *= voice* | the men's voices | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | 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:7`. **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. **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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