"How do you know?", sentence 18

Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand; they lie low with their necks along the ground and turn their eggs in nests dug in the sand.

Who acts: Ostriches · What happens: not bury, lie, turn, dig · To what, where: heads, sand, eggs, nests

This is a sentence of the lesson «"How do you know?"» of the world 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), 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	in	in	ADP	_	9 sand	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sand	det
9	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bury	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
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	parataxis
13	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 lie	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 necks	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 necks	nmod:poss
16	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lie	obl
17	along	along	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 necks	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 turn	cc
21	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lie	conj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eggs	nmod:poss
23	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 turn	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 nests	case
25	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 turn	obl
26	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 nests	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 sand	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sand	det
29	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dug	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bury	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bury	present · do-support	Ostriches	ostriches's heads	the sand		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sand=Destination
2	lie	present	ostriches = ostrich			with ostriches's necks along the ground; low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	present	ostriches = ostrich not said here	ostriches's eggs		in nests	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic
4	dig	participle		nests not said here	the sand		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location

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:world:186-how-do-you-know.lesson:18.

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, R7-rel-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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