--- title: An old Scandinavian folk story said lemmings fell from the sky in st… — Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs? · tree and pragmatics description: An old Scandinavian folk story said lemmings fell from the sky in storms, because they appeared so suddenly in boom years. Who acts: old Scandinavian folk story, lemmings. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, sentence 13 An old Scandinavian folk story said lemmings fell from the sky in storms, because they appeared so suddenly in boom years. **Who acts:** old Scandinavian folk story, lemmings · **What happens:** say, fall, appear · **To what, where:** sky · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (old Scandinavian folk story, lemmings), 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:13 # text = An old Scandinavian folk story said lemmings fell from the sky in storms, because they appeared so suddenly in boom years. # 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): R5-strong ×3 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 Scandinavian scandinavian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 storms storm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 19 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 boom boom NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a old Scandinavian folk story | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **fall** | past | lemmings | | | the sky | | in storms | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in storm=Location | | 3 | **appear** | past | lemmings *= lemming* | | | | year | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:13`. **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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/12/) - next →: [Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/)