--- title: Elephants talk with very low rumbles that travel far, and they may f… — The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mo… · tree and pragmatics description: Elephants talk with very low rumbles that travel far, and they may feel them through their feet as well as hear them. Who acts: Elephants, low rumbles. 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 dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The elephant house: herds, feet, food…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth/) / 15 # The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 15 Elephants talk with very low rumbles that travel far, and they may feel them through their feet as well as hear them. **Who acts:** Elephants, low rumbles · **What happens:** talk, travel, feel, hear · **To what, where:** ears, feet, elephants 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 (Elephants, low rumbles), 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:15 # text = Elephants talk with very low rumbles that travel far, and they may feel them through their feet as well as hear them. # 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 Elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 rumbles rumble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 through through ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 22 advmod _ _ 20 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 fixed _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 22 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present | Elephants | | | | | with low rumbles | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rumble=Co-Agent | | 2 | **travel** | present | low rumbles | | | | | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **feel** | may | elephants *= elephant* | ears *= ear* | | elephants's feet | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme through foot=Location | | 4 | **hear** | infinitive | elephants *= elephant* *not said here* | elephants *= elephant* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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:15`. **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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