--- title: In boom years lemmings spread out in search of food and may swim riv… — Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs? · tree and pragmatics description: In boom years lemmings spread out in search of food and may swim rivers and lakes, and some drown; this may be where the cliff myth began. Who acts: lemmings, some, this, cliff myth. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, sentence 8 In boom years lemmings spread out in search of food and may swim rivers and lakes, and some drown; this may be where the cliff myth began. **Who acts:** lemmings, some, this, cliff myth · **What happens:** spread out, swim, drown, be, begin, search · **To what, where:** search, rivers, food 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, some, this, cliff myth), 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:8 # text = In boom years lemmings spread out in search of food and may swim rivers and lakes, and some drown; this may be where the cliff myth began. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 boom boom NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 14 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 nsubj _ _ 20 drown drown VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=20:punct 22 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl:relcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread out** | present | lemmings | | | search of food | year | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Location | | 2 | **swim** | may | lemmings *not said here* | rivers and lakes | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory | | 3 | **drown** | present | some | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | may | this | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **begin** | past | the cliff myth | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **search** | | | food | | | | | nom search «act transitive»: of=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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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