--- title: In cartoons an elephant shrieks and jumps on a stool when a mouse ru… — The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mo… · tree and pragmatics description: In cartoons an elephant shrieks and jumps on a stool when a mouse runs past, but real elephants are not afraid of mice; they may just step aside from anything that moves suddenly by their feet, as you would. Who acts: elephant, mouse, real elephants, elephants. 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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 (elephant, mouse, real elephants, elephants), 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:4 # text = In cartoons an elephant shrieks and jumps on a stool when a mouse runs past, but real elephants are not afraid of mice; they may just step aside from anything that moves suddenly by their feet, as you would. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 shrieks shriek VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 stool stool NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 past past ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 step step VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 30 aside aside ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 30 obl _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 as as SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shriek** | present | a elephant | | | cartoons | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location | | 2 | **jump** | present | a elephant *not said here* | | | a stool | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stool=Trajectory | | 3 | **run past** | present | a mouse | | | | | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | real elephants | | | | | of mice; afraid *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **step** | may | elephants *= elephant* | | | | | aside *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **move** | present | | | | | | by elephants's feet; suddenly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by foot=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. 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