Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, sentence 12
The 1991 computer game «Lemmings» made the myth more famous, though the player's job was to save them.
Who acts: 1991 computer game, job, player · What happens: make, be, job · To what, where: myth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?» 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 (1991 computer game, job, player), 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 | 4 game | det |
| 2 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 game | nummod |
| 3 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 game | compound |
| 4 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lemmings | punct |
| 6 | Lemmings | lemming | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 game | appos |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lemmings | punct |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 myth | det |
| 10 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 famous | advmod |
| 12 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 save | punct |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 save | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 player | det |
| 16 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 job | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 player | case |
| 18 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 save | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 save | cop |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 save | mark |
| 21 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 save | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the 1991 computer game | the myth | famous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset myth=Product | |||
| 2 | is | past | the player's job | save property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | job | the player | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs.lesson:12.
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.
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