Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 6

Lemmings do not kill themselves; in years with very many lemmings they move to new places and some drown crossing water, and a 1958 Disney film faked its famous cliff scene by pushing lemmings over.

Who acts: Lemmings, 1958 Disney film · What happens: not kill, move, drown, cross, fake, push over · To what, where: lemmings, new places, water, famous cliff scene

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 (Lemmings, 1958 Disney 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	Lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kill	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 kill	advmod
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 kill	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 years	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 years	case
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 move	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 lemmings	case
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lemmings	amod
12	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 years	nmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 move	nsubj
14	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 places	case
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 places	amod
17	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 move	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drown	cc
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 water	det
20	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 move	conj
21	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 drown	advcl
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crossing	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 faked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 faked	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 film	det
26	1958	1958	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 film	nummod
27	Disney	Disney	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 film	compound
28	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 faked	nsubj
29	faked	fake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	conj
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 scene	nmod:poss
31	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 scene	amod
32	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 scene	compound
33	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 faked	obj
34	by	by	SCONJ	_	35 pushing	mark
35	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 faked	advcl
36	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 pushing	obj
37	over	over	ADV	_	35 pushing	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kill	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not kill	present · do-support	Lemmings	lemmings = lemming				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
2	move	present	lemmings = lemming		new places	year		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to place=Trajectory
3	drown	present	lemmings = lemming not said here					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cross	gerund	lemmings = lemming not said here	some water				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
5	fake	past	a 1958 Disney film	film's famous cliff scene				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Patient
6	push over	gerund	a 1958 Disney film not said here	lemmings			over property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemming=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:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:6.

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 ×2. 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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