--- title: In cartoons a scared ostrich pushes its head into the sand and think… — Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the… · tree and pragmatics description: In cartoons a scared ostrich pushes its head into the sand and thinks it is hidden, with its fluffy bottom still sticking up in the air. Who acts: scared ostrich, fluffy bottom. 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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 (scared ostrich, fluffy bottom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand.lesson:0 # text = In cartoons a scared ostrich pushes its head into the sand and thinks it is hidden, with its fluffy bottom still sticking up in the air. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:cop 16 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:ccomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 fluffy fluffy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 still still ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 sticking stick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | present | a scared ostrich | ostrich's head | | cartoons | | into the sand | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme into sand=Destination | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | a scared ostrich *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **hide** | present · passive | | ostrich | | | | with ostrich's fluffy bottom | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **stick up** | gerund | ostrich's fluffy bottom *not said here* | | | the air | still | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in air=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:151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/16/) - next →: [Myth check: do ostriches bury their he…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/)