Friends who cling to a legend, sentence 15

Lemmings (small furry animals of the far north) do not jump off cliffs to die all together; a 1958 nature film helped spread the story with scenes that were staged.

Who acts: Lemmings, nature film · What happens: not jump off, die, help, spread, stage · To what, where: cliffs, story, scenes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths 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, nature film), 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	13 jump	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 animals	punct
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
4	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lemmings	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 north	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 north	det
8	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 north	amod
9	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	nmod
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 animals	punct
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 jump	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 jump	advmod
13	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 jump	compound:prt
15	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 jump	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 die	mark
17	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 jump	advcl
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 together	advmod
19	together	together	ADV	_	17 die	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 spread	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 film	det
22	1958	1958	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 nature	nummod
23	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 film	compound
24	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 helped	nsubj
25	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 jump	parataxis
26	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 helped	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 story	det
28	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spread	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 scenes	case
30	scenes	scene	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 spread	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 staged	nsubj:pass
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 staged	aux:pass
33	staged	stage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 scenes	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 jump	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not jump off	present · do-support	Lemmings	cliffs		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory
2	die	to-infinitive	Lemmings not said here		together property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	help	past	a nature film			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	spread	infinitive	a nature film not said here	the story	with scenes	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent story=Destination with scene=Theme
5	stage	past · passive		scenes		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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