Ducks, geese and farm myths, sentence 13

Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand: they lie flat to hide and turn their eggs in a nest dug in the ground, which from far away can look like heads in the sand.

Who acts: Ostriches, nest · What happens: not bury, lie, hide, turn, dig, look · To what, where: heads, sand, eggs, nest, ground

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ducks, geese and farm myths» 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, nest), 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 lie	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lie	nsubj
12	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bury	parataxis
13	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lie	xcomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hide	mark
15	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lie	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turn	cc
17	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hide	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eggs	nmod:poss
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 turn	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 nest	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 nest	det
22	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turn	obl
23	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 nest	acl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dug	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 look	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 look	nsubj
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 far	case
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 look	advmod
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 far	advmod
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 look	aux
33	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 nest	acl:relcl
34	like	like	ADP	_	35 heads	case
35	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 look	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 sand	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sand	det
38	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 look	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bury	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bury	present · do-support	Ostriches	ostriches's heads	the sand		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sand=Destination
2	lie	present	ostriches = ostrich			flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hide	to-infinitive	ostriches = ostrich not said here				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	infinitive	ostriches = ostrich not said here	ostriches's eggs		in a nest	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic
5	dig	participle		a nest not said here	the ground		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in ground=Location
6	look	can	a nest			like heads; in the sand; far property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sand=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:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.lesson:13.

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, 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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