--- title: Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand: they lie flat to hide… — Ducks, geese and farm myths · tree and pragmatics description: Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand: they lie flat to hide and turn their eggs in a nest dug in the ground, which from far away can look like heads in the sand. Who acts: Ostriches, nest. 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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, nest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.lesson:13 # text = Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand: they lie flat to hide and turn their eggs in a nest dug in the ground, which from far away can look like heads in the sand. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.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, R7-rel-agree ×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 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 13 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:xcomp 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 dug dig VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 acl _ _ 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 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **bury** | present · do-support | Ostriches | ostriches's heads | | the sand | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sand=Destination | | 2 | **lie** | present | ostriches *= ostrich* | | | | | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hide** | to-infinitive | ostriches *= ostrich* *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **turn** | infinitive | ostriches *= ostrich* *not said here* | ostriches's eggs | | | | in a nest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic | | 5 | **dig** | participle | | a nest *not said here* | | the ground | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in ground=Location | | 6 | **look** | can | a nest | | | | | like heads; in the sand; far *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sand=Theme | 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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