--- title: In the elephant house the floor is deep, warm sand instead of concre… — The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mo… · tree and pragmatics description: In the elephant house the floor is deep, warm sand instead of concrete, because an animal as heavy as several cars gets sore feet and joints on hard ground, and keepers trim its toenails with a big rasp. Who acts: floor, animal, keepers. 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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 (floor, animal, keepers), 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:1 # text = In the elephant house the floor is deep, warm sand instead of concrete, because an animal as heavy as several cars gets sore feet and joints on hard ground, and keepers trim its toenails with a big rasp. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 14 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 concrete concrete NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 24 mark _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 25 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 joints joint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 trim trim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 toenails toenail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 rasp rasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the floor | | | the elephant house | | deep *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | present | a animal | sore feet and joints | | hard ground | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on ground=Source | | 3 | **trim** | present | keepers | animal's toenails | | | | with a big rasp | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent toenail=Destination with rasp=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. 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