--- title: Ostriches do not bury their heads in sand; they lower their heads to… — The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostr… · tree and pragmatics description: Ostriches do not bury their heads in sand; they lower their heads to turn their eggs in a ground nest or lie flat to hide, and a scared ostrich runs at up to about 70 kilometres per hour or kicks. Who acts: Ostriches, meerkats, scared ostrich. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ostriches, meerkats, scared ostrich), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:10 # text = Ostriches do not bury their heads in sand; they lower their heads to turn their eggs in a ground nest or lie flat to hide, and a scared ostrich runs at up to about 70 kilometres per hour or kicks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Ostriches ostrich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 lower lower VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 24 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advcl 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 33 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 up up ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:advmod 35 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 39 per per ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 kicks kick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **bury** | present · do-support | Ostriches | meerkats's heads | | sand | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sand=Destination | | 2 | **lower** | present | meerkats *= meerkat* | meerkats's heads | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | to-infinitive | meerkats *= meerkat* *not said here* | meerkats's eggs | | | | in a ground nest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic | | 4 | **lie** | infinitive | meerkats *= meerkat* *not said here* | | | | | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hide** | to-infinitive | meerkats *= meerkat* *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **run** | present | a scared ostrich | | | | | to 70 kilometres per hour or kicks *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to kilometre=Result | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:10`. **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, 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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