Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 9
Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand; to hide they lie flat with their necks along the ground, and they also turn their eggs in the nest with their beaks.
Who acts: Ostriches, cats · What happens: not bury, hide, lie, turn · To what, where: heads, sand, ground, eggs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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, cats), 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 | _ | 9 sand | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sand | det |
| 9 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bury | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 hide | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hide | mark |
| 12 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bury | advcl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lie | nsubj |
| 14 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hide | ccomp |
| 15 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 14 lie | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 necks | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 necks | nmod:poss |
| 18 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lie | obl |
| 19 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lie | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 turn | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 turn | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 turn | nsubj |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 turn | advmod |
| 26 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bury | advcl |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 28 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 turn | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 nest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 nest | det |
| 31 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turn | obl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 beaks | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 beaks | nmod:poss |
| 34 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 turn | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bury | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bury | present · do-support | Ostriches | cats's heads | the sand | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sand=Destination | |||
| 2 | hide | to-infinitive | Ostriches not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lie | present | cats = cat | the ground | with cats's necks; flat property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along ground=Location | |||
| 4 | turn | present | cats = cat | cats's eggs | with cats's beaks; in the nest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic |
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:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.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): R5-strong ×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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