Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 7
Lemmings don't kill themselves in groups; a 1958 Disney film staged it, and when there are too many lemmings they spread out and some drown crossing water by accident.
Who acts: Lemmings, 1958 Disney film, many lemmings, some · What happens: not kill, stage, be, spread out, drown, cross · To what, where: lemmings, groups, head
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 (Lemmings, 1958 Disney film, many lemmings, some), 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 | 4 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 kill | advmod |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 kill | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 groups | case |
| 7 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kill | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 staged | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 film | det |
| 10 | 1958 | 1958 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 film | nummod |
| 11 | Disney | Disney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 film | compound |
| 12 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 staged | nsubj |
| 13 | staged | stage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 staged | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 spread | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 spread | cc |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 are | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 are | expl |
| 19 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 spread | advcl |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 many | advmod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lemmings | amod |
| 22 | lemmings | lemming | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 are | nsubj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 spread | nsubj |
| 24 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 staged | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 spread | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 water | cc |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 drown | nsubj |
| 28 | drown | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 spread | conj |
| 29 | crossing | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 drown | advcl |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spread | conj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 accident | case |
| 32 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 water | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill | present · do-support | Lemmings | lemmings = lemming | groups | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||
| 2 | stage | past | a 1958 Disney film | head | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | does | present | many lemmings | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spread out | past | lemmings = lemming | out property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | drown | present | some | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | cross | gerund | some not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:7.
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. 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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