--- title: Norwegian lemmings are bold and brightly coloured, and they often sq… — Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs? · tree and pragmatics description: Norwegian lemmings are bold and brightly coloured, and they often squeak and stand their ground against much bigger animals. Who acts: Norwegian lemmings, lemmings. 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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 (Norwegian lemmings, 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:9 # text = Norwegian lemmings are bold and brightly coloured, and they often squeak and stand their ground against much bigger animals. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Norwegian Norwegian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 bold bold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 brightly brightly ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 7 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 often often ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 squeak squeak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 against against ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 much much ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 20 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 21 . . 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** | present | Norwegian lemmings | | | | | bold *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Norwegian lemmings *not said here* | | | | | brightly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **squeak** | present | lemmings *= lemming* | | | | | often *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stand** | present | lemmings *= lemming* *not said here* | lemmings's ground | | | | against bigger animals | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ground=Theme against animal=Destination | 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:9`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/8/) - next →: [Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/)