--- title: Real biology: a trunk is the nose and upper lip joined together, wit… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: Real biology: a trunk is the nose and upper lip joined together, with no bones and many thousands of muscle bundles, so it can lift a log or pick up a single peanut. Who acts: trunk, Real biology. 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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 (trunk, Real biology), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:080-justso-elephants-child-2.lesson:20 # text = Real biology: a trunk is the nose and upper lip joined together, with no bones and many thousands of muscle bundles, so it can lift a log or pick up a single peanut. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 080-justso-elephants-child-2.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 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 biology biology NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 lip lip NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 together together ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 muscle muscle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 bundles bundle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 log log NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 peanut peanut NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a trunk | the nose and upper lip | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **join** | past | Real biology | | | | | with no bones and many thousands of muscle bundles; together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with bone=Co-Patient | | 3 | **lift** | can | trunk | a log | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Theme | | 4 | **pick up** | infinitive | trunk *not said here* | a single peanut | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peanut=Topic | 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:books:080-justso-elephants-child-2.lesson:20`. **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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/19/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/)