Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?, sentence 3
A real ostrich in danger does something much cleverer: it runs at about 70 km per hour, kicks with a clawed foot, or lies flat so its brown-grey feathers blend with the ground.
Who acts: real ostrich, ostrich, grey feathers · What happens: do, run, kick, claw, lie, blend · To what, where: something, 70 km
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 (real ostrich, ostrich, grey feathers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ostrich | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ostrich | amod |
| 3 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 does | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 danger | case |
| 5 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ostrich | nmod |
| 6 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 does | obj |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 cleverer | advmod |
| 9 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 something | amod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 runs | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 runs | nsubj |
| 12 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 does | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 km | case |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 70 | advmod |
| 15 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 km | nummod |
| 16 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 runs | obl |
| 17 | per | per | ADP | _ | 18 hour | case |
| 18 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 km | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kicks | punct |
| 20 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 runs | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 foot | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 foot | det |
| 23 | clawed | claw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 foot | amod |
| 24 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kicks | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lies | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 lies | cc |
| 27 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 runs | conj |
| 28 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 27 lies | advmod |
| 29 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 35 blend | mark |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 31 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 grey | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 brown | punct |
| 33 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 feathers | amod |
| 34 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 blend | nsubj |
| 35 | blend | blend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 lies | advcl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 ground | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ground | det |
| 38 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 blend | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 does | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | a real ostrich in danger | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | run | present | ostrich | 70 km per hour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | kick | present | ostrich not said here | with a clawed foot | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with foot=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | claw | participle | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | lie | present | ostrich not said here | flat property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | blend | present | ostrich's grey feathers | with the ground | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with ground=Co-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:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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