Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?, sentence 9
Ostriches have only two toes on each foot, fewer than any other bird.
Who acts: Ostriches · What happens: have · To what, where: two toes, foot
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 | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 two | advmod |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 toes | nummod |
| 5 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 foot | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 foot | det |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 toes | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fewer | punct |
| 10 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 toes | parataxis |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 bird | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 bird | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bird | amod |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fewer | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | 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 | have | present | Ostriches | two toes | each foot | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=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:9.
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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