Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?, sentence 2

The myth probably grew from what people saw from far away: an ostrich bending down to turn its eggs in a pit in the ground, or lying flat with its neck along the soil, looks headless.

Who acts: myth, people, ostrich · What happens: grow, see, bend down, turn, lie, look · To what, where: eggs, soil

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 (myth, people, ostrich), 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	2 myth	det
2	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 grew	advmod
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 what	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 grew	obl
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 far	case
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 saw	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 far	advmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 bending	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ostrich	det
14	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bending	nsubj
15	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 grew	advcl
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 bending	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 turn	mark
18	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bending	advcl
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eggs	nmod:poss
20	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 turn	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 pit	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pit	det
23	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turn	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pit	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lying	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 lying	cc
29	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 bending	conj
30	flat	flat	ADV	_	29 lying	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 neck	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 neck	nmod:poss
33	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lying	obl
34	along	along	ADP	_	36 soil	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 soil	det
36	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lying	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 looks	punct
38	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
39	headless	headless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 looks	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the myth			probably property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from what=Patient
2	see	past	people			far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	bend down	gerund	a ostrich			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	to-infinitive	a ostrich not said here	ostrich's eggs		in a pit in the ground	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in pit=Topic
5	lie	gerund	a ostrich not said here		the soil	with ostrich's neck; flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along soil=Location
6	look	present	the myth not said here			headless property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:2.

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.

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