--- title: The myth probably grew from what people saw from far away: an ostric… — Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the… · tree and pragmatics description: The myth probably grew from what people saw from far away: an ostrich bending down to turn its eggs in a pit in the ground, or lying flat with its neck along the soil, looks headless. Who acts: myth, people, ostrich. 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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 (myth, people, ostrich), 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:2 # text = The myth probably grew from what people saw from far away: an ostrich bending down to turn its eggs in a pit in the ground, or lying flat with its neck along the soil, looks headless. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 probably probably ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 obl _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 bending bend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 16 down down ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 29 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 30 flat flat ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 along along ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 headless headless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **grow** | past | the myth | | | | | probably *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from what=Patient | | 2 | **see** | past | people | | | | | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **bend down** | gerund | a ostrich | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **turn** | to-infinitive | a ostrich *not said here* | ostrich's eggs | | | | in a pit in the ground | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in pit=Topic | | 5 | **lie** | gerund | a ostrich *not said here* | | | the soil | | with ostrich's neck; flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along soil=Location | | 6 | **look** | present | the myth *not said here* | | | | | headless *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:2`. **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 ×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 ostriches bury their he…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/1/) - next →: [Myth check: do ostriches bury their he…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/)