The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world, sentence 15

Lemmings spend the winter in tunnels under the snow, which traps air like a blanket; the story that they jump off cliffs together is a myth helped by a faked 1958 film.

Who acts: Lemmings, snow, story · What happens: spend, trap, jump off, be, help, fake · To what, where: tunnels, air, cliffs, myth

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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, snow, story), 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	2 spend	nsubj
2	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 winter	det
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spend	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 tunnels	case
6	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spend	obl
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 snow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snow	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spend	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 air	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 traps	nsubj
12	traps	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 snow	acl:relcl
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 traps	obj
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 blanket	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 blanket	det
16	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 traps	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 story	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 myth	nsubj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 jump	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 jump	nsubj
22	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 story	acl:relcl
23	off	off	ADP	_	24 cliffs	case
24	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 jump	obl
25	together	together	ADV	_	22 jump	advmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 myth	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 myth	det
28	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spend	parataxis
29	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 myth	acl
30	by	by	ADP	_	34 film	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 film	det
32	faked	fake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 film	amod
33	1958	1958	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 film	nummod
34	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 helped	obl:agent
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spend	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	present	Lemmings		tunnels	winter	under the snow	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	trap	present	the snow	air			like a blanket	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient
3	jump off	present	lemmings = lemming	cliffs			together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory
4	is a	present	the story	a myth				tree rules
5	help	participle		a myth not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	fake	participle						vn establish-55.5-1 «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.

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:006-the-arctic.lesson:15.

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 ×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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