The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas, sentence 10

Ostriches do not bury their heads in sand; they lower their heads to turn their eggs in a ground nest or lie flat to hide, and a scared ostrich runs at up to about 70 kilometres per hour or kicks.

Who acts: Ostriches, meerkats, scared ostrich · What happens: not bury, lower, turn, lie, hide, run · To what, where: heads, sand, eggs

This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» 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 (Ostriches, meerkats, scared ostrich), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bury	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bury	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bury	advmod
4	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heads	nmod:poss
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bury	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 sand	case
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bury	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 lower	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lower	nsubj
11	lower	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bury	parataxis
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 heads	nmod:poss
13	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lower	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 turn	mark
15	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lower	advcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eggs	nmod:poss
17	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 turn	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 nest	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 nest	det
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nest	compound
21	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turn	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 lie	cc
23	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 turn	conj
24	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lie	xcomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 hide	mark
26	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 lie	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 runs	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 runs	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 ostrich	det
30	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ostrich	amod
31	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 runs	nsubj
32	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bury	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 up	case
34	up	up	ADV	_	37 70	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 kilometres	case
36	about	about	ADV	_	37 70	advmod
37	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	38 kilometres	nummod
38	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 runs	obl
39	per	per	ADP	_	40 hour	case
40	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 kilometres	nmod
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 kicks	cc
42	kicks	kick	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 hour	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bury	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bury	present · do-support	Ostriches	meerkats's heads	sand		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sand=Destination
2	lower	present	meerkats = meerkat	meerkats's heads			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	turn	to-infinitive	meerkats = meerkat not said here	meerkats's eggs		in a ground nest	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic
4	lie	infinitive	meerkats = meerkat not said here			flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hide	to-infinitive	meerkats = meerkat not said here				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	run	present	a scared ostrich			to 70 kilometres per hour or kicks result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to kilometre=Result

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, 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:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:10.

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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-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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