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title: An elephant's trunk has tens of thousands of muscle bundles and can… — Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: An elephant's trunk has tens of thousands of muscle bundles and can hold things as delicately as fingers. Who acts: trunk. 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 and the pragmatic
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# Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 9

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An elephant's trunk has tens of thousands of muscle bundles and can hold things as delicately as fingers.

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**Who acts:** trunk · **What happens:** have, hold · **To what, where:** tens, things

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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 (trunk), 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:9
# text = An elephant's trunk has tens of thousands of muscle bundles and can hold things as delicately as fingers.
# 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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bundles	bundle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	delicately	delicately	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a elephant's trunk | tens of thousands of muscle bundles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Patient |
| 2 | **hold** | can | a elephant's trunk *not said here* | things |  |  |  | delicately *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

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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.

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**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:9`.

**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/).

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