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title: Many zoos turn elephant dung into compost for gardens, and in some c… — The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many zoos turn elephant dung into compost for gardens, and in some countries it is even made into paper. Who acts: Many zoos. A sentence of the lesson «The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 11

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Many zoos turn elephant dung into compost for gardens, and in some countries it is even made into paper.

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**Who acts:** Many zoos · **What happens:** turn, make · **To what, where:** elephant dung, compost, dung, countries

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many zoos), 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:11
# text = Many zoos turn elephant dung into compost for gardens, and in some countries it is even made into paper.
# 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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dung	dung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	compost	compost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Many zoos | elephant dung |  | compost for gardens |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dung=Theme into compost=Trajectory |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | dung |  | some countries |  | into paper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into paper=Product |

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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.

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**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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