Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?, sentence 4
Ostriches do not bury their heads in sand; they could not breathe, and it would not make them safer.
Who acts: Ostriches, feathers, ostrich · What happens: not bury, not breathe, not make · To what, where: heads, sand, feathers
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 (Ostriches, feathers, 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 | Ostriches | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bury | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bury | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bury | advmod |
| 4 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bury | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sand | case |
| 8 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bury | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 bury | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 breathe | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 breathe | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 breathe | advmod |
| 13 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bury | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 make | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 make | advmod |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 breathe | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 make | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bury | 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 | not bury | present · do-support | Ostriches | feathers's heads | sand | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sand=Destination | |||
| 2 | not breathe | could | feathers = feather | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not make | would | ostrich | feathers = feather | safe property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product |
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:4.
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): no change. 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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