Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, sentence 5

Lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose; the famous 1958 film scene was staged by bringing lemmings in and pushing them off.

Who acts: Lemmings · What happens: not jump off, stage, bring in, push off · To what, where: cliffs, purpose, famous film scene, lemmings

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 (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	Lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jump	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 jump	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 jump	advmod
4	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 jump	compound:prt
6	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jump	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 purpose	case
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jump	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 staged	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 scene	det
11	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 scene	amod
12	1958	1958	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 film	nummod
13	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scene	compound
14	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 staged	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 staged	aux:pass
16	staged	stage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 jump	parataxis
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 bringing	mark
18	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 staged	advcl
19	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bringing	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	18 bringing	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pushing	cc
22	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 bringing	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pushing	obj
24	off	off	ADP	_	22 pushing	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 jump	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	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
2	stage	past · passive		the famous film scene		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	bring in	gerund		lemmings		vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lemming=Asset
4	push off	gerund		lemmings = lemming		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:5.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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