The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer, sentence 8
The cliff-jumping lemming myth was spread by a 1958 Disney film in which the film makers pushed lemmings over a cliff.
Who acts: 1958 Disney film, film makers · What happens: jump, spread, push · To what, where: jumping lemming myth, lemmings, 1958 Disney film
This is a sentence of the lesson «The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer» 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 (1958 Disney film, film makers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 myth | det |
| 2 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jumping | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 cliff | punct |
| 4 | jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 myth | amod |
| 5 | lemming | lemming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 myth | compound |
| 6 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spread | aux:pass |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 film | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 film | det |
| 11 | 1958 | 1958 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 film | nummod |
| 12 | Disney | Disney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 film | compound |
| 13 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 pushed | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 makers | det |
| 17 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 makers | compound |
| 18 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pushed | nsubj |
| 19 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 film | acl:relcl |
| 20 | lemmings | lemming | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pushed | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 cliff | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cliff | det |
| 23 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pushed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | spread | past · passive | a 1958 Disney film | the jumping lemming myth | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | push | past | the film makers | lemmings | a 1958 Disney film | over a cliff | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent lemming=Theme in which=Trajectory |
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:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer.lesson:8.
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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