--- title: Elephants are not afraid of mice; they cannot see well right by thei… — The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mo… · tree and pragmatics description: Elephants are not afraid of mice; they cannot see well right by their feet, so a sudden movement there can startle them, but terror is a cartoon joke. Who acts: Elephants, sudden movement, terror. 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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, sudden movement, terror), 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:6 # text = Elephants are not afraid of mice; they cannot see well right by their feet, so a sudden movement there can startle them, but terror is a cartoon joke. # 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 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 12 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 13 right right ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 startle startle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | Elephants | | | | | of mice; afraid *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **see** | can | elephants *= elephant* | | | | | by elephants's feet; well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **startle** | can | a sudden movement | elephants *= elephant* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | terror | a cartoon joke | | | | | tree rules | 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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