--- title: Lemmings are small rodents related to voles, living on the tundra an… — Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs? · tree and pragmatics description: Lemmings are small rodents related to voles, living on the tundra and mountains of Scandinavia, Russia, Canada and Alaska, eating grasses, moss and sedges. Who acts: Lemmings, small rodents. 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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 (Lemmings, small rodents), 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:6 # text = Lemmings are small rodents related to voles, living on the tundra and mountains of Scandinavia, Russia, Canada and Alaska, eating grasses, moss and sedges. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 rodents rodent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:acl 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 voles vole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 tundra tundra NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Scandinavia Scandinavia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 Alaska Alaska PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ _ 25 grasses grass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 sedges sedge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Lemmings | small rodents | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | gerund | small rodents *not said here* | | | the tundra of Scandinavia and Russia and Canada and Alaska and mountains | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tundra=Location | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | small rodents *not said here* | grasses and moss and sedges | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=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:150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs.lesson:6`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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