Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?, sentence 7
Ostriches can run at about 70 km per hour, faster than any other bird on land, with strides of about 4 to 5 metres.
Who acts: Ostriches · What happens: run, stride · To what, where: 70 km, 4 metres
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), 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 | 3 run | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 km | case |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 70 | advmod |
| 6 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 km | nummod |
| 7 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 run | obl |
| 8 | per | per | ADP | _ | 9 hour | case |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 km | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 faster | punct |
| 11 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 run | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 bird | case |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 bird | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bird | amod |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 faster | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bird | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 strides | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 strides | case |
| 20 | strides | stride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 run | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 metres | case |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 4 | advmod |
| 23 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 metres | nummod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 5 | case |
| 25 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 4 | nmod |
| 26 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 strides | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | 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 | run | can | Ostriches | 70 km per hour | with strides of 4 metres | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stride | 4 metres | nom stride «act transitive»: of=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:7.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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