Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, sentence 2
The story became famous through a 1958 nature film: the film makers brought lemmings in and pushed them off a cliff for the camera, because they believed an old story and wanted a dramatic scene.
Who acts: story, film makers, lemmings · What happens: become, bring in, push off, believe, want · To what, where: lemmings, old story, dramatic scene
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 (story, film makers, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 film | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 film | det |
| 7 | 1958 | 1958 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 nature | nummod |
| 8 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 film | compound |
| 9 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 famous | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 makers | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 makers | det |
| 12 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 makers | compound |
| 13 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 film | appos |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 makers | acl |
| 15 | lemmings | lemming | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 brought | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 brought | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pushed | cc |
| 18 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pushed | obj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 pushed | compound:prt |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cliff | det |
| 22 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pushed | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 camera | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 camera | det |
| 25 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cliff | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 believed | punct |
| 27 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 29 believed | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 believed | nsubj |
| 29 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | advcl |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 story | det |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 story | amod |
| 32 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 believed | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 wanted | cc |
| 34 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 believed | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 scene | det |
| 36 | dramatic | dramatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 scene | amod |
| 37 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 wanted | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | 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 | become | past | the story | famous property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring in | participle | the film makers not said here | lemmings | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lemming=Asset | ||||
| 3 | push off | past | the film makers not said here | lemmings = lemming | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme cliff=Destination | ||||
| 4 | believe | past | lemmings = lemming | a old story | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | want | past | lemmings = lemming not said here | a dramatic scene | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot scene=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:2.
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 ×2. 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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