--- title: A real ostrich in danger does something much cleverer: it runs at ab… — Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the… · tree and pragmatics description: A real ostrich in danger does something much cleverer: it runs at about 70 km per hour, kicks with a clawed foot, or lies flat so its brown-grey feathers blend with the ground. Who acts: real ostrich, ostrich, grey feathers. 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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 (real ostrich, ostrich, grey feathers), 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:3 # text = A real ostrich in danger does something much cleverer: it runs at about 70 km per hour, kicks with a clawed foot, or lies flat so its brown-grey feathers blend with the ground. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obj _ _ 8 much much ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 cleverer clever ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 13 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 per per ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 kicks kick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 clawed claw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 28 flat flat ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 so so SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 31 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 blend blend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . 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 | **do** | present | a real ostrich in danger | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 2 | **run** | present | ostrich | | | 70 km per hour | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory | | 3 | **kick** | present | ostrich *not said here* | | | | | with a clawed foot | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with foot=Instrument | | 4 | **claw** | participle | | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lie** | present | ostrich *not said here* | | | | | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **blend** | present | ostrich's grey feathers | | | | | with the ground | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with ground=Co-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:151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand.lesson:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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 ostriches bury their he…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/2/) - next →: [Myth check: do ostriches bury their he…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/)