--- title: Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand; to hide they lie flat… — Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, ele… · tree and pragmatics description: Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand; to hide they lie flat with their necks along the ground, and they also turn their eggs in the nest with their beaks. Who acts: Ostriches, cats. 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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 (Ostriches, cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:9 # text = Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand; to hide they lie flat with their necks along the ground, and they also turn their eggs in the nest with their beaks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.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 1 Ostriches ostrich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 15 flat flat ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 necks neck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 along along ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 also also ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **bury** | present · do-support | Ostriches | cats's heads | | the sand | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sand=Destination | | 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive | Ostriches *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lie** | present | cats *= cat* | | | the ground | | with cats's necks; flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along ground=Location | | 4 | **turn** | present | cats *= cat* | cats's eggs | | | | with cats's beaks; in the nest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic | 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. 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