--- title: Stand still and you may feel a deep rumble more than hear it: elepha… — The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mo… · tree and pragmatics description: Stand still and you may feel a deep rumble more than hear it: elephants talk with sounds so low that some are below what our ears can catch, and they travel kilometres. Who acts: you, elephants, some, ears. 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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 (you, elephants, some, ears), 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:2 # text = Stand still and you may feel a deep rumble more than hear it: elephants talk with sounds so low that some are below what our ears can catch, and they travel kilometres. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Stand stand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 2 still still ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 rumble rumble NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 11 than than SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 below below ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 ccomp _ _ 26 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 34 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **feel** | may | you | a deep rumble | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumble=Theme | | 3 | **hear** | infinitive | you *not said here* | rumble | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **talk** | present | elephants | | | | | with sounds | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sound=Co-Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | some | | | sounds | | | tree rules | | 6 | **catch** | can | our ears | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **travel** | present | ears *= ear* | kilometres | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kilometre=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:2`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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