Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 7
Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand; they lie flat with their necks along the ground to hide, and they turn their eggs in the nest with their beaks, so from far away the head seems buried.
Who acts: Ostriches, lemmings, head · What happens: not bury, lie, hide, turn, seem, bury · To what, where: heads, sand, ground, eggs
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 (Ostriches, lemmings, head), 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 | Ostriches | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bury | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bury | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bury | advmod |
| 4 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bury | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sand | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sand | det |
| 9 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bury | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 lie | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lie | nsubj |
| 12 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bury | parataxis |
| 13 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 12 lie | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 necks | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 necks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lie | obl |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lie | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 hide | mark |
| 21 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lie | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turn | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 turn | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 turn | nsubj |
| 25 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bury | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 27 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 turn | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 nest | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 nest | det |
| 30 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turn | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 beaks | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 beaks | nmod:poss |
| 33 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 turn | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 seems | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 seems | advmod |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 far | case |
| 37 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 seems | obl |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 far | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 head | det |
| 40 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 seems | nsubj |
| 41 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bury | conj |
| 42 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 seems | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bury | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bury | present · do-support | Ostriches | lemmings's heads | the sand | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sand=Destination | |||
| 2 | lie | present | lemmings = lemming | the ground | with lemmings's necks; flat property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along ground=Location | |||
| 3 | hide | to-infinitive | lemmings = lemming not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | turn | present | lemmings = lemming | lemmings's eggs | with lemmings's beaks; in the nest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic | |||
| 5 | seem | present | the head | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | bury | participle | the head not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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.
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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, 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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