--- title: The cliff-jumping lemming myth was spread by a 1958 Disney film in w… — The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmin… · tree and pragmatics description: The cliff-jumping lemming myth was spread by a 1958 Disney film in which the film makers pushed lemmings over a cliff. Who acts: 1958 Disney film, film makers. A sentence of the lesson «The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy ow…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer/) / 8 # The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer, sentence 8 The cliff-jumping lemming myth was spread by a 1958 Disney film in which the film makers pushed lemmings over a cliff. **Who acts:** 1958 Disney film, film makers · **What happens:** jump, spread, push · **To what, where:** jumping lemming myth, lemmings, 1958 Disney film This is a sentence of the lesson «The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer» of the biology 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 (1958 Disney film, film makers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer.lesson:8 # text = The cliff-jumping lemming myth was spread by a 1958 Disney film in which the film makers pushed lemmings over a cliff. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer.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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 jumping jump VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 5 lemming lemming NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 1958 1958 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 12 Disney Disney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 makers maker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 20 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 over over ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spread** | past · passive | a 1958 Disney film | the jumping lemming myth | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | | 3 | **push** | past | the film makers | lemmings | | a 1958 Disney film | | over a cliff | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent lemming=Theme in which=Trajectory | 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. 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