Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?, sentence 3
The cartoon ostrich comes from a real sight: an ostrich lowers its head to turn its eggs in a ground nest or lies flat to hide, and from far away it looks headless.
Who acts: cartoon ostrich, ostrich, hump · What happens: come, lower, turn, lie, hide, look · To what, where: real sight, head, eggs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?» 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 (cartoon ostrich, ostrich, hump), 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 ostrich | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ostrich | compound |
| 3 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sight | amod |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 lowers | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ostrich | det |
| 11 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lowers | nsubj |
| 12 | lowers | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 comes | parataxis |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lowers | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 turn | mark |
| 16 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lowers | advcl |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 turn | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 nest | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 nest | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nest | compound |
| 22 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turn | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 lies | cc |
| 24 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lowers | conj |
| 25 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lies | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 hide | mark |
| 27 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 flat | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 looks | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 looks | cc |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 far | case |
| 31 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 looks | advmod |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 far | advmod |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 looks | nsubj |
| 34 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lowers | conj |
| 35 | headless | headless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 looks | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the cartoon ostrich | a real sight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lower | present | a ostrich | sight's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | to-infinitive | a ostrich not said here | sight's eggs | in a ground nest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic | |||
| 4 | lie | present | a ostrich not said here | flat property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hide | to-infinitive | a ostrich not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | look | present | hump | far, headless property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.lesson:3.
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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