Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?, sentence 0

In cartoons a scared ostrich pushes its head into the sand and thinks it is hidden, with its fluffy bottom still sticking up in the air.

Who acts: scared ostrich, fluffy bottom · What happens: push, think, hide, stick up · To what, where: head, cartoons, ostrich, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?» 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 (scared ostrich, fluffy bottom), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 cartoons	case
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pushes	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ostrich	det
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ostrich	amod
5	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pushes	nsubj
6	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pushes	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 sand	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sand	det
11	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pushes	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thinks	cc
13	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pushes	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hidden	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hidden	aux:pass
16	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 thinks	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bottom	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 bottom	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bottom	nmod:poss
20	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bottom	amod
21	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hidden	obl
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 sticking	advmod
23	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 bottom	acl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 sticking	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 air	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 air	det
27	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sticking	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pushes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	a scared ostrich	ostrich's head	cartoons		into the sand	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme into sand=Destination
2	think speech: other	present	a scared ostrich not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	hide	present · passive		ostrich			with ostrich's fluffy bottom	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	stick up	gerund	ostrich's fluffy bottom not said here		the air	still		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in air=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:151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand.lesson:0.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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