Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?, sentence 8
An ostrich kicks forwards and down, and a kick from its clawed foot can badly injure or even kill a lion or a person.
Who acts: ostrich, kick · What happens: kick, claw, injure, kill · To what, where: lion
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 (ostrich, kick), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ostrich | det |
| 2 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kicks | nsubj |
| 3 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forwards | forward | ADV | _ | 3 kicks | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 down | cc |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 forwards | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 injure | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 injure | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 kick | det |
| 10 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 injure | nsubj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 foot | nmod:poss |
| 13 | clawed | claw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 foot | amod |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kick | nmod |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 injure | aux |
| 16 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 injure | advmod |
| 17 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kicks | conj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 kill | cc |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 kill | advmod |
| 20 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 injure | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lion | det |
| 22 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kill | obj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 person | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 person | det |
| 25 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lion | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kicks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | present | a ostrich | forward property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | claw | participle | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | injure | can | a kick from ostrich's clawed foot | badly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | a kick from ostrich's clawed foot not said here | a lion or a person | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme |
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:8.
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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