The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings, sentence 8
The cliff story spread from a 1958 nature film in which people pushed lemmings off a cliff for the camera.
Who acts: cliff story, people · What happens: spread, push · To what, where: nature film, lemmings
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings» 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 (cliff story, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 2 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | compound |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 film | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 film | det |
| 7 | 1958 | 1958 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 nature | nummod |
| 8 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 film | compound |
| 9 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 pushed | obl |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pushed | nsubj |
| 13 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 film | acl:relcl |
| 14 | lemmings | lemming | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pushed | obj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 cliff | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cliff | det |
| 17 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushed | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 camera | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 camera | det |
| 20 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | 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 | spread | past | the cliff story | a nature film | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | push | past | people | lemmings | a nature film | off a cliff; for the camera | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent lemming=Theme in which=Trajectory |
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:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings.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): 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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