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title: Some books and quizzes still repeat the cliff myth, because people c… — Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs? · tree and pragmatics
description: Some books and quizzes still repeat the cliff myth, because people copy facts without checking where they came from. Who acts: books, people. 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 pragmatics
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# Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, sentence 16

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Some books and quizzes still repeat the cliff myth, because people copy facts without checking where they came from.

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**Who acts:** books, people · **What happens:** repeat, copy, check, come · **To what, where:** cliff myth, facts

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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 (books, people), 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:16
# text = Some books and quizzes still repeat the cliff myth, because people copy facts without checking where they came from.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	quizzes	quiz	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	repeat	repeat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	copy	copy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | present | some books and quizzes | the cliff myth |  |  | still |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myth=Eventuality |
| 2 | **copy** | present | people | facts |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme |
| 3 | **check** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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