--- title: The lemming myth was spread by a 1958 nature film in which the film-… — Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the… · tree and pragmatics description: The lemming myth was spread by a 1958 nature film in which the film-makers themselves drove lemmings off a cliff; real lemmings sometimes drown by accident when crowds of them cross water. Who acts: nature film, film makers, real lemmings, crowds. 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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 (nature film, film makers, real lemmings, crowds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson:15 # text = The lemming myth was spread by a 1958 nature film in which the film-makers themselves drove lemmings off a cliff; real lemmings sometimes drown by accident when crowds of them cross water. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 lemming lemming NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 1958 1958 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 makers maker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:appos 18 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 19 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 off off ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 27 advmod _ _ 27 drown drown VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 31 crowds crowd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ _ 34 cross cross VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 35 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | past · passive | a nature film | the lemming myth | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | | 2 | **drive** | past | the film makers myths | lemmings | | a nature film | | off a cliff | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent lemming=Theme in which=Destination off cliff=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **drown** | present | real lemmings | | | | | by accident; sometimes *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cross** | present | crowds of myths | water | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | 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:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson:15`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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