--- title: Elephants are not especially scared of mice; in tests they were star… — Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemm… · tree and pragmatics description: Elephants are not especially scared of mice; in tests they were startled by anything moving suddenly near their feet, and they are wary of bees, which can sting inside the trunk, so farmers in Africa build beehive fences to keep elephants off crops. Who acts: Elephants, bees, farmers. 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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, bees, farmers), 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:5 # text = Elephants are not especially scared of mice; in tests they were startled by anything moving suddenly near their feet, and they are wary of bees, which can sting inside the trunk, so farmers in Africa build beehive fences to keep elephants off crops. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 especially especially ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 startled startle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obl _ _ 16 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 near near ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 wary wary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:det 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 inside inside ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 37 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:obl 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:obl 40 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 41 beehive beehive NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 fences fence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:acl 45 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 46 off off ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 crops crop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 48 . . 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 | **not** **is** | present | Elephants | | | | | of mice; especially, scared *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **startle** | past · passive | | elephants *= elephant* | | tests | | by anything | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **move** | gerund | | | | elephants's feet | | suddenly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme near foot=Trajectory | | 4 | **is** | present | elephants *= elephant* | | | | | of bees; wary *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sting** | can | bees | | | the trunk | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **build** | present | farmers in Africa | beehive fences | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fence=Product | | 7 | **keep** | to-infinitive | farmers in Africa *not said here* | elephants | | | | off crops | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme | 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: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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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