Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, sentence 9
Norwegian lemmings are bold and brightly coloured, and they often squeak and stand their ground against much bigger animals.
Who acts: Norwegian lemmings, lemmings · What happens: be, squeak, stand · To what, where: ground
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 (Norwegian lemmings, 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 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lemmings | amod |
| 2 | lemmings | lemming | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bold | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bold | cop |
| 4 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 coloured | cc |
| 6 | brightly | brightly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 coloured | advmod |
| 7 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bold | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 squeak | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 squeak | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 squeak | nsubj |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 squeak | advmod |
| 12 | squeak | squeak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bold | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stand | cc |
| 14 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 squeak | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ground | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stand | obj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 animals | case |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 bigger | advmod |
| 19 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 animals | amod |
| 20 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stand | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Norwegian lemmings | bold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Norwegian lemmings not said here | brightly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | squeak | present | lemmings = lemming | often property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stand | present | lemmings = lemming not said here | lemmings's ground | against bigger animals | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ground=Theme against animal=Destination |
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:9.
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): R8-pos-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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