Cartoon pets and animal myths put right, sentence 7

Lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose; a 1958 nature film staged it by pushing them over the edge, and in real life some drown when crowds of them cross rivers.

Who acts: Lemmings, nature film, some, crowds · What happens: not jump off, stage, push, drown, cross · To what, where: cliffs, purpose, films, edge, real life, rivers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» 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 (Lemmings, nature film, some, crowds), 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	Lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jump	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 jump	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 jump	advmod
4	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 jump	compound:prt
6	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jump	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 purpose	case
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jump	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 staged	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 film	det
11	1958	1958	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 nature	nummod
12	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 film	compound
13	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 staged	nsubj
14	staged	stage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jump	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 staged	obj
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 pushing	mark
17	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 staged	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pushing	obj
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 edge	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 edge	det
21	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pushing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drown	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drown	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 life	case
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 life	amod
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drown	obl
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 drown	nsubj
28	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 jump	conj
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	33 cross	mark
30	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 cross	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 crowds	nmod
33	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 drown	advcl
34	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 cross	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 jump	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not jump off	present · do-support	Lemmings	cliffs	purpose	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cliff=Theme on purpose=Trajectory
2	stage	past	a nature film	purpose		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	push	gerund	a nature film not said here	films = film	the edge	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme over edge=Trajectory
4	drown	present	some		real life	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	cross	present	crowds of films	rivers		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:7.

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, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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