--- title: The 1991 computer game «Lemmings» made the myth more famous, though… — Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs? · tree and pragmatics description: The 1991 computer game «Lemmings» made the myth more famous, though the player's job was to save them. Who acts: 1991 computer game, job, player. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/12/) [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/) / [Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/) / 12 # Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, sentence 12 The 1991 computer game «Lemmings» made the myth more famous, though the player's job was to save them. **Who acts:** 1991 computer game, job, player · **What happens:** make, be, job · **To what, where:** myth This is a sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?» 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 (1991 computer game, job, player), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs.lesson:12 # text = The 1991 computer game «Lemmings» made the myth more famous, though the player's job was to save them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 1991 1991 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 8 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 12 advmod _ _ 12 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 though though SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 player player NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **make** | past | the 1991 computer game | the myth | | | | famous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset myth=Product | | 2 | **is** | past | the player's job | | | | | save *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **job** | | the player | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs.lesson:12`. **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): 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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