--- title: In Dumbo the grown-up elephants scream and climb onto a stool when a… — Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemm… · tree and pragmatics description: In Dumbo the grown-up elephants scream and climb onto a stool when a tiny mouse runs past, and in the old Lemmings computer game little creatures march off cliffs in a line. Who acts: grown elephants, tiny mouse, little creatures. 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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 (grown elephants, tiny mouse, little creatures), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:1 # text = In Dumbo the grown-up elephants scream and climb onto a stool when a tiny mouse runs past, and in the old Lemmings computer game little creatures march off cliffs in a line. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Dumbo Dumbo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=4:compound 7 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 scream scream VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 onto onto ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 stool stool NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 when when SCONJ WRB _ 18 mark _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 19 past past ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advcl 20 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 Lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:compound 26 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 march march VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 31 off off ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | present | the grown elephants | | | Dumbo | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dumbo=Location | | 3 | **climb** | present | the grown elephants *not said here* | | | a stool | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto stool=Trajectory | | 4 | **run past** | present | a tiny mouse | | | | | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **march** | present | little creatures | | | the old Lemmings computer game | | off cliffs; in a line | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in game=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:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:1`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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