Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?, sentence 13

«Burying your head in the sand» means pretending a problem is not there; the saying comes from the myth, not from real ostriches.

Who acts: Burying, problem, saying · What happens: bury, mean, pretend, not be, come · To what, where: head, sand, problem, myth · 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 (Burying, problem, saying), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Burying	punct
2	Burying	bury	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 means	csubj
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Burying	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sand	det
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Burying	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Burying	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 means	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 problem	det
12	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pretending	obj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 there	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 there	advmod
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 problem	acl:relcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 saying	det
18	saying	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 comes	nsubj
19	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	parataxis
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 myth	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 myth	det
22	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 comes	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ostriches	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 ostriches	advmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 ostriches	case
26	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ostriches	amod
27	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 comes	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bury in a quote	gerund		your head	the sand		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sand=Destination
2	mean	present	Burying				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pretend not said to happen	gerund	Burying not said here	a problem			tree rules
4	not is	present	a problem not said here			there property	tree rules
5	come	present	the saying		the myth	from real ostriches	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from myth=Initial_Location from ostrich=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:13.

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, R6-punct-agree ×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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