The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food, sentence 20

Elephants fearing mice is a myth; they are startled by sudden movement and wary of bees, and other myths are wrong too: ostriches do not bury their heads, lemmings do not jump and goldfish remember for months.

Who acts: Elephants, sudden movement, other myths, ostriches, lemmings, goldfish · What happens: fear, be, startle, not bury, not jump, remember · To what, where: mice, myth, heads

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» 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 (Elephants, sudden movement, other myths, ostriches), 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	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 myth	nsubj
2	fearing	fear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Elephants	acl
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fearing	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 myth	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 myth	det
6	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 startled	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 startled	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 startled	aux:pass
10	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 myth	parataxis
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 movement	case
12	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 movement	amod
13	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 startled	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wary	cc
15	wary	wary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 movement	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 bees	case
17	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wary	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wrong	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wrong	cc
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 myths	amod
21	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wrong	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 wrong	cop
23	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 myth	conj
24	too	too	ADV	_	23 wrong	advmod
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 bury	punct
26	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bury	nsubj
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 bury	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 bury	advmod
29	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 myth	conj
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heads	nmod:poss
31	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bury	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 jump	punct
33	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 jump	nsubj
34	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 jump	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 jump	advmod
36	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 bury	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 remember	cc
38	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 remember	nsubj
39	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 jump	conj
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 months	case
41	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 remember	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 myth	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fear	gerund	Elephants not said here	mice			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus
2	is a	present	Elephants	a myth			tree rules
3	startle	present · passive	sudden movement	mice = mouse			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
4	is	present	other myths			wrong property	tree rules
5	not bury	present · do-support	ostriches	mice's heads			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
6	not jump	present · do-support	lemmings				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	remember	present	goldfish		month		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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.

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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:20.

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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