The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds, sentence 16

Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand; they lay their heads flat on the ground to hide and turn their eggs in a nest scraped in the soil.

Who acts: Ostriches, toes · What happens: not bury, lay, hide, turn, scrape · To what, where: heads, sand, ground, eggs, nest, soil

This is a sentence of the lesson «The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds» 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, toes), 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 lay	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bury	parataxis
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 heads	nmod:poss
14	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lay	obj
15	flat	flat	ADV	_	12 lay	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hide	mark
20	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lay	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 turn	cc
22	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 hide	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 eggs	nmod:poss
24	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 turn	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 nest	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 nest	det
27	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turn	obl
28	scraped	scrape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 nest	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 soil	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 soil	det
31	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 scraped	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bury	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bury	present · do-support	Ostriches	toes's heads	the sand		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sand=Destination
2	lay	present	toes = toe	toes's heads	the ground	flat property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on ground=Destination
3	hide	to-infinitive	toes = toe not said here				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	infinitive	toes = toe not said here	toes's eggs		in a nest	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic
5	scrape	participle		a nest not said here	the soil		vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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:004-the-savanna.lesson:16.

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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