--- title: The cliff story spread from a 1958 nature film in which people pushe… — The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snow… · tree and pragmatics description: The cliff story spread from a 1958 nature film in which people pushed lemmings off a cliff for the camera. Who acts: cliff story, people. A sentence of the lesson «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic f…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/) / 8 # The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings, sentence 8 The cliff story spread from a 1958 nature film in which people pushed lemmings off a cliff for the camera. **Who acts:** cliff story, people · **What happens:** spread, push · **To what, where:** nature film, lemmings This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings» 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 (cliff story, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings.lesson:8 # text = The cliff story spread from a 1958 nature film in which people pushed lemmings off a cliff for the camera. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 1958 1958 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obl _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 off off ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 camera camera NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 21 . . 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 | **spread** | past | the cliff story | | | a nature film | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **push** | past | people | lemmings | | a nature film | | off a cliff; for the camera | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent lemming=Theme in which=Trajectory | 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:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings.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): 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. 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