Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?, sentence 14
Ostrich chicks from several nests may be gathered into one big group looked after by a few adults, and chicks can run fast within days of hatching.
Who acts: chicks · What happens: gather, look, run · To what, where: Ostrich chicks, one big group
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 (chicks), 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 | Ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chicks | compound |
| 2 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 nests | case |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nests | amod |
| 5 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chicks | nmod |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 gathered | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gathered | aux:pass |
| 8 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 group | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 group | nummod |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 group | amod |
| 12 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gathered | obl |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 group | acl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 adults | case |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 adults | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 adults | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 adults | amod |
| 18 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 looked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 run | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 run | cc |
| 21 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 run | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 run | aux |
| 23 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gathered | conj |
| 24 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 run | advmod |
| 25 | within | within | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 run | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hatching | case |
| 28 | hatching | hatching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 days | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gathered | 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 | gather | may · passive | Ostrich chicks from several nests | into one big group | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient into group=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | participle | one big group not said here | after a few adults | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | run | can | chicks | day | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand.lesson:14.
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): R1-cc-next ×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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/14/