Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?, sentence 16
The Roman writer Pliny the Elder wrote almost 2,000 years ago that ostriches hide their heads in bushes, and the story grew from there.
Who acts: Roman writer, ostriches, story · What happens: write, hide, grow · To what, where: heads, bushes
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 (Roman writer, ostriches, story), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 writer | det |
| 2 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 writer | amod |
| 3 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrote | nsubj |
| 4 | Pliny | Pliny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 writer | appos |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Elder | det |
| 6 | Elder | Elder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Pliny | flat |
| 7 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 9 2,000 | advmod |
| 9 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 wrote | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 hide | mark |
| 13 | ostriches | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hide | nsubj |
| 14 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrote | ccomp |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heads | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hide | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bushes | case |
| 18 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hide | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grew | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 story | det |
| 22 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrote | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 there | case |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 grew | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | the Roman writer | ago property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hide | present | ostriches | adults's heads | bushes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Patient in bush=Location | |||
| 3 | grow | past | the story | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from there=Patient |
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:16.
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 ×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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