--- title: Lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose; the famous 1958 film sce… — Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs? · tree and pragmatics description: Lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose; the famous 1958 film scene was staged by bringing lemmings in and pushing them off. Who acts: Lemmings. 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 prag --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, sentence 5 Lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose; the famous 1958 film scene was staged by bringing lemmings in and pushing them off. **Who acts:** Lemmings · **What happens:** not jump off, stage, bring in, push off · **To what, where:** cliffs, purpose, famous film scene, lemmings 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 (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:5 # text = Lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose; the famous 1958 film scene was staged by bringing lemmings in and pushing them off. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 1958 1958 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 scene scene NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 staged stage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 17 by by SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 18 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl 19 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 pushing push VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 off off ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **jump off** | present · do-support | Lemmings | cliffs | | purpose | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cliff=Theme on purpose=Trajectory | | 2 | **stage** | past · passive | | the famous film scene | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **bring in** | gerund | | lemmings | | | | | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lemming=Asset | | 4 | **push off** | gerund | | lemmings *= lemming* | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:5`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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