Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 6

Ostriches don't bury their heads; when in danger they lie flat or run at up to about 70 kilometres an hour, and they turn their eggs in nests dug in the ground.

Who acts: Ostriches, tales · What happens: not bury, lie, run up, turn, dug · To what, where: heads, danger, eggs, nests, ground

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 (Ostriches, tales), 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	n't	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	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 lie	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 danger	case
10	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lie	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lie	nsubj
12	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bury	advcl
13	flat	flat	ADV	_	12 lie	advmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 run	cc
15	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lie	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 up	case
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 run	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 kilometres	case
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 70	advmod
20	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 kilometres	nummod
21	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 run	obl
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hour	det
23	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kilometres	nmod:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 turn	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 turn	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 turn	nsubj
27	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lie	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eggs	nmod:poss
29	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 turn	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 nests	case
31	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 turn	obl
32	dug	dug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 nests	acl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 ground	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ground	det
35	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dug	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bury	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bury	present · do-support	Ostriches	tales's heads			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	lie	present	tales = tale		danger	flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in danger=Location
3	run up	present	tales = tale not said here			to 70 kilometres a hour result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to kilometre=Result
4	turn	present	tales = tale	tales's eggs		in nests	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic
5	dug	participle		nests not said here	the ground		tree rules

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:6.

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. 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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