Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 3

Each myth usually hides something true: an ostrich lying flat with its neck on the ground looks headless from far away, and lemmings really do drown sometimes when huge crowds of them cross rivers.

Who acts: myth, ostrich, lemmings, huge crowds · What happens: hide, lie, look, drown, cross · To what, where: something, rivers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» 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 (myth, ostrich, lemmings, huge 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 myth	det
2	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hides	nsubj
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 hides	advmod
4	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 hides	obj
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 ostrich	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ostrich	det
9	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looks	nsubj
10	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 ostrich	acl
11	flat	flat	ADV	_	10 lying	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 neck	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 neck	nmod:poss
14	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lying	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 neck	nmod
18	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hides	parataxis
19	headless	headless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 looks	xcomp
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 away	case
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 away	advmod
22	away	away	ADV	_	19 headless	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drown	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drown	cc
25	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 drown	nsubj
26	really	really	ADV	_	28 drown	advmod
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 drown	aux
28	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 looks	conj
29	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 drown	advmod
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 cross	advmod
31	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 crowds	amod
32	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 cross	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 crowds	nmod
35	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 drown	advcl
36	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 cross	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hides	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hide	present	each myth	something	usually property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	lie	gerund	a ostrich not said here		with ostrich's neck on the ground; flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	present	a ostrich		headless property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	drown	present · do-support	lemmings		sometimes property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	cross	present	huge crowds of myths	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:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.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 ×2, R8-pos-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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