Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?), sentence 4

And the story that lemmings jump off cliffs together is not true: it was made popular by a 1958 nature film in which the lemmings were pushed.

Who acts: lemmings, story, nature film · What happens: jump off, not be, make, push · To what, where: story, lemmings, nature film

This is a sentence of the lesson «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?)» 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, story, nature film), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 true	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 true	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 jump	obj
5	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jump	nsubj
6	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 story	acl:relcl
7	off	off	ADP	_	8 cliffs	case
8	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jump	obl
9	together	together	ADV	_	6 jump	advmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 true	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 true	advmod
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 made	aux:pass
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 true	parataxis
17	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 made	xcomp
18	by	by	ADP	_	22 film	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 film	det
20	1958	1958	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 nature	nummod
21	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 film	compound
22	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 pushed	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lemmings	det
26	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pushed	nsubj:pass
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 pushed	aux:pass
28	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 film	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump off	present	lemmings	the story		off cliffs; together property	tree rules
2	not is	present	the story			true property	tree rules
3	make	past · passive	a nature film	story		popular property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
4	push	past · passive		the lemmings	a nature film		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=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:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:4.

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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