Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, sentence 13
An old Scandinavian folk story said lemmings fell from the sky in storms, because they appeared so suddenly in boom years.
Who acts: old Scandinavian folk story, lemmings · What happens: say, fall, appear · To what, where: sky · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old Scandinavian folk story, 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 3 | Scandinavian | scandinavian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 4 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | compound |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | lemmings | lemming | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 sky | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sky | det |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 storms | case |
| 13 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appeared | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 appeared | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 appeared | nsubj |
| 17 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | advcl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 suddenly | advmod |
| 19 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 17 appeared | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 years | case |
| 21 | boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 years | compound |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 appeared | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | 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 | say speech: assert | past | a old Scandinavian folk story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | lemmings | the sky | in storms | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in storm=Location | |||
| 3 | appear | past | lemmings = lemming | year | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:13.
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. 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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