--- title: An adult elephant can eat more than 100 kilograms of food a day and… — The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mo… · tree and pragmatics description: An adult elephant can eat more than 100 kilograms of food a day and digests only about half of it, so its dung is full of plant fibre. Who acts: adult elephant, dung. 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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 (adult elephant, dung), 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:10 # text = An adult elephant can eat more than 100 kilograms of food a day and digests only about half of it, so its dung is full of plant fibre. # 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 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 8 advmod _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 digests digest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 only only ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 15 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 dung dung NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 fibre fibre NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **eat** | can | a adult elephant | 100 kilograms of food | | | day | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=Patient | | 2 | **digest** | present | a adult elephant *not said here* | half of half | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | half's dung | | | | | of plant fibre; full *property* | tree rules | 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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