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title: An ostrich kicks forwards and down, and a kick from its clawed foot… — Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: An ostrich kicks forwards and down, and a kick from its clawed foot can badly injure or even kill a lion or a person. Who acts: ostrich, kick. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?, sentence 8

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An ostrich kicks forwards and down, and a kick from its clawed foot can badly injure or even kill a lion or a person.

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**Who acts:** ostrich, kick · **What happens:** kick, claw, injure, kill · **To what, where:** lion

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ostrich, kick), 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:8
# text = An ostrich kicks forwards and down, and a kick from its clawed foot can badly injure or even kill a lion or a person.
# 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): no change
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kicks	kick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forwards	forward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	kick	kick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	clawed	claw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	injure	injure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | present | a ostrich |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **claw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **injure** | can | a kick from ostrich's clawed foot |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **kill** | infinitive | a kick from ostrich's clawed foot *not said here* | a lion or a person |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme |

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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.

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**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:8`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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