--- title: Elephants are pregnant for about 22 months, longer than any other la… — The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mo… · tree and pragmatics description: Elephants are pregnant for about 22 months, longer than any other land animal, and a newborn weighs about 100 kilograms and often walks under its mother's belly for shade and safety. Who acts: Elephants, newborn. 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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, newborn), 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:12 # text = Elephants are pregnant for about 22 months, longer than any other land animal, and a newborn weighs about 100 kilograms and often walks under its mother's belly for shade and safety. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 pregnant pregnant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 22 22 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 10 than than ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 12 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 18 newborn newborn NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 21 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 often often ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 under under ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 shade shade NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=32:cc 34 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Elephants | | | | month | long, pregnant *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **weigh** | present | a newborn | 100 kilograms | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value | | 3 | **walk** | present | a newborn *not said here* | | | newborn's mother's belly | | for shade and safety; often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under belly=Trajectory | 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:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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