Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 2

Many things people believe about animals are myths: bats are not blind, owls cannot turn their heads all the way round, and sharks very rarely attack people.

Who acts: people, Many things, bats, owls, sharks · What happens: believe, be, not be, not turn, attack · To what, where: Many things, myths, heads, people

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» of the everyday 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 (people, Many things, bats, owls), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 myths	nsubj
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 believe	nsubj
4	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 things	acl:relcl
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 animals	case
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 believe	obl
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 myths	cop
8	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 blind	punct
10	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 blind	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 blind	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 blind	advmod
13	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 myths	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turn	punct
15	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 turn	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 turn	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 turn	advmod
18	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 blind	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 heads	nmod:poss
20	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 turn	obj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 way	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 round	obl
24	round	round	ADV	_	18 turn	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 attack	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 attack	cc
27	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 attack	nsubj
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 rarely	advmod
29	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	30 attack	advmod
30	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 blind	advcl
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 attack	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 myths	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe	present	people	Many things not said here	about animals	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	is a	present	Many things	myths		tree rules
3	not is	present	bats		blind property	tree rules
4	not turn	can	owls	animals's heads	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	attack	present	sharks	people	rarely property	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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:everyday:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:2.

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 ×3. 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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