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title: Modern elephant houses have deep sand and heated floors, because yea… — The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Modern elephant houses have deep sand and heated floors, because years on hard concrete hurt elephants' feet and joints. Who acts: Modern elephant houses, years. 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 it
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# The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 7

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Modern elephant houses have deep sand and heated floors, because years on hard concrete hurt elephants' feet and joints.

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**Who acts:** Modern elephant houses, years · **What happens:** have, heat, hurt · **To what, where:** deep sand, feet

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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 (Modern elephant houses, years), 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:7
# text = Modern elephant houses have deep sand and heated floors, because years on hard concrete hurt elephants' feet and joints.
# 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	Modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	concrete	concrete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
17	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	'	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Modern elephant houses | deep sand and heated floors |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Patient |
| 2 | **heat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hurt** | present | years on hard concrete | elephants's feet and joints |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Patient |

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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.

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**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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