Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, sentence 16
Some books and quizzes still repeat the cliff myth, because people copy facts without checking where they came from.
Who acts: books, people · What happens: repeat, copy, check, come · To what, where: cliff myth, facts
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 (books, people), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 books | det |
| 2 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 repeat | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 quizzes | cc |
| 4 | quizzes | quiz | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 books | conj |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 repeat | advmod |
| 6 | repeat | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 myth | det |
| 8 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 myth | compound |
| 9 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 repeat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 copy | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 copy | mark |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 copy | nsubj |
| 13 | copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 repeat | advcl |
| 14 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 copy | obj |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 checking | mark |
| 16 | checking | check | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 copy | advcl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 came | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 checking | advcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 came | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 repeat | 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 | repeat | present | some books and quizzes | the cliff myth | still | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myth=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | copy | present | people | facts | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme | ||||
| 3 | check | gerund | people not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past | people | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:16.
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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