Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 0

Picture it: an ostrich, terrified, plunges its head into the sand and stays there, bottom in the air, thinking nobody can see it.

Who acts: you, ostrich, nobody · What happens: picture, plunge, stay, think, see · To what, where: it, head, sand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» 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 (you, ostrich, nobody), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Picture	obj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ostrich	det
5	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plunges	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 terrified	punct
7	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ostrich	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 plunges	punct
9	plunges	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plunges	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 sand	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sand	det
14	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plunges	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stays	cc
16	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 plunges	conj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 stays	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bottom	punct
19	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plunges	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 air	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bottom	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
24	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 plunges	advcl
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 see	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thinking	ccomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 see	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	it		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	plunge	present	a ostrich	ostrich's head	the sand	vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme
3	stay	present	a ostrich not said here		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	gerund	a ostrich not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	see	can	nobody	head		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:0.

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): no change. 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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