Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right, sentence 3

Elephants are not terrified of mice, lions do not chase mice for dinner, ostriches do not bury their heads, lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose, bats are not blind and goldfish remember for months: a good scientist checks a story before repeating it.

Who acts: Elephants, lions, ostriches, lemmings, bats, goldfish · What happens: not be, not chase, not bury, not jump off, remember, check · To what, where: mice, heads, cliffs, purpose, story, scientist

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 (Elephants, lions, ostriches, lemmings), 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	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 terrified	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 terrified	advmod
4	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mice	case
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 terrified	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chase	punct
8	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 chase	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 chase	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 chase	advmod
11	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 terrified	conj
12	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 chase	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 dinner	case
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chase	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bury	punct
16	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bury	nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 bury	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 bury	advmod
19	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 terrified	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 heads	nmod:poss
21	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bury	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 jump	punct
23	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 jump	nsubj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 jump	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 jump	advmod
26	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 bury	conj
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 jump	compound:prt
28	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 jump	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 purpose	case
30	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 jump	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 blind	punct
32	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 blind	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 blind	cop
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 blind	advmod
35	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 terrified	parataxis
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 remember	cc
37	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 remember	nsubj
38	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 blind	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 months	case
40	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 remember	obl
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 checks	punct
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 scientist	det
43	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 scientist	amod
44	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 checks	nsubj
45	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	parataxis
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 story	det
47	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 checks	obj
48	before	before	SCONJ	_	49 repeating	mark
49	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 checks	advcl
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 repeating	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Elephants				of mice; terrified property	tree rules
2	not chase	present · do-support	lions	mice			for dinner	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
3	not bury	present · do-support	ostriches	ostriches's heads				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	not jump off	present · do-support	lemmings	cliffs	purpose			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cliff=Theme on purpose=Trajectory
5	not is	present	bats				blind property	tree rules
6	remember	present	goldfish			month		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	check	present	a good scientist	a story				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
8	repeat	gerund	a good scientist not said here	scientist				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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:3.

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. 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.

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