Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right, sentence 15

The lemming myth was spread by a 1958 nature film in which the film-makers themselves drove lemmings off a cliff; real lemmings sometimes drown by accident when crowds of them cross water.

Who acts: nature film, film makers, real lemmings, crowds · What happens: spread, drive, drown, cross · To what, where: lemming myth, lemmings, nature film, water

This is a sentence of the lesson «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» 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 (nature film, film makers, real lemmings, crowds), 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	3 myth	det
2	lemming	lemming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 myth	compound
3	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	aux:pass
5	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 film	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 film	det
8	1958	1958	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 nature	nummod
9	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 film	compound
10	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 drove	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 makers	det
14	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 makers	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 film	punct
16	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 drove	nsubj
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 makers	nmod
18	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 film	acl:relcl
19	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 drove	obj
20	off	off	ADP	_	22 cliff	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cliff	det
22	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drove	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 lemmings	punct
24	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lemmings	amod
25	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 drown	nsubj
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 drown	advmod
27	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	parataxis
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 accident	case
29	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drown	obl
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 cross	advmod
31	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 cross	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 crowds	nmod
34	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 drown	advcl
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cross	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spread	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	past · passive	a nature film	the lemming myth			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
2	drive	past	the film makers myths	lemmings	a nature film	off a cliff	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent lemming=Theme in which=Destination off cliff=Initial_Location
3	drown	present	real lemmings			by accident; sometimes property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cross	present	crowds of myths	water			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson:15.

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 ×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.

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