--- title: «Burying your head in the sand» means pretending a problem is not th… — Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the… · tree and pragmatics description: «Burying your head in the sand» means pretending a problem is not there; the saying comes from the myth, not from real ostriches. Who acts: Burying, problem, saying. 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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 (Burying, problem, saying), 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:13 # text = «Burying your head in the sand» means pretending a problem is not there; the saying comes from the myth, not from real ostriches. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Burying bury VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 pretending pretend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 saying say NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 ostriches ostrich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** *in a quote* | gerund | | your head | | the sand | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sand=Destination | | 2 | **mean** | present | Burying | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **pretend** *not said to happen* | gerund | Burying *not said here* | a problem | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | a problem *not said here* | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **come** | present | the saying | | | the myth | | from real ostriches | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from myth=Initial\_Location from ostrich=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:13`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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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