--- title: Many zoos have stopped elephant shows such as painting, because trai… — The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mo… · tree and pragmatics description: Many zoos have stopped elephant shows such as painting, because training for tricks was sometimes harsh, and now train elephants only for health care, using rewards. Who acts: Many zoos, training. 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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 (Many zoos, training), 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:16 # text = Many zoos have stopped elephant shows such as painting, because training for tricks was sometimes harsh, and now train elephants only for health care, using rewards. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 shows show NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 9 case _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 painting painting NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 12 training training NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:csubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 17 advmod _ _ 17 harsh harsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 21 train train VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 29 rewards reward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present · perfect | Many zoos | elephant shows | | | | such painting | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality show=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | past | training for tricks | | | | | harsh, sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **train** | present | Many zoos *not said here* | elephants | | | now | for health care | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme | | 4 | **use** | gerund | Many zoos *not said here* | rewards | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient | 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:16`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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