Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?, sentence 11
An ostrich's eye is about 5 centimetres across, the biggest of any land animal and bigger than its own brain.
Who acts: eye · What happens: be · To what, where: 5 centimetres
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 (eye), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ostrich | det |
| 2 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eye | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 ostrich | case |
| 4 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 centimetres | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 centimetres | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 5 | advmod |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 centimetres | nummod |
| 8 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | across | across | ADV | _ | 8 centimetres | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 centimetres | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 biggest | det |
| 12 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 eye | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 animal | case |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 animal | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 animal | compound |
| 16 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 biggest | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bigger | cc |
| 18 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 biggest | conj |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 brain | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brain | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 brain | amod |
| 22 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bigger | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 centimetres | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a ostrich's eye | 5 centimetres | across property | tree rules |
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:11.
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. 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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