--- title: Hay nets hung high make elephants stretch and pick as they would fro… — The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mo… · tree and pragmatics description: Hay nets hung high make elephants stretch and pick as they would from trees; wild elephants feed for up to 16 hours a day. Who acts: Hay nets, elephants, wild 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 (Hay nets, elephants, wild 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:9 # text = Hay nets hung high make elephants stretch and pick as they would from trees; wild elephants feed for up to 16 hours a day. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 hung hung VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 4 high high ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 stretch stretch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 up up ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:case 21 to to ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:unmarked _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **hung** | participle | | Hay nets *not said here* | | | | high *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | Hay nets | elephants | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stretch** | infinitive | elephants *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **pick** | infinitive | elephants *not said here* | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **feed** | present | wild elephants | | | | hour | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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