--- title: An elephant herd is a family of mothers, daughters, aunts and babies… — The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mo… · tree and pragmatics description: An elephant herd is a family of mothers, daughters, aunts and babies, and at the front walks the grandmother, the matriarch, who remembers where the water is and which dangers to avoid. Who acts: elephant herd, grandmother, matriarch, water. 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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 (elephant herd, grandmother, matriarch, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:083-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth.lesson:0 # text = An elephant herd is a family of mothers, daughters, aunts and babies, and at the front walks the grandmother, the matriarch, who remembers where the water is and which dangers to avoid. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 083-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-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 3 det _ _ 2 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 aunts aunt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 20 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 matriarch matriarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 ccomp _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 35 det _ _ 35 dangers danger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | a elephant herd | a family | | | | of mothers and daughters and aunts and babies | tree rules | | 2 | **walk** | present | the grandmother | | | the front | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at front=Trajectory | | 3 | **remember** | present | the matriarch | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | the water | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | which dangers | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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:083-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth.lesson:0`. **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. 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