--- title: Lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose; a 1958 nature film stage… — Cartoon pets and animal myths put right · tree and pragmatics description: Lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose; a 1958 nature film staged it by pushing them over the edge, and in real life some drown when crowds of them cross rivers. Who acts: Lemmings, nature film, some, crowds. 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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 (Lemmings, nature film, some, crowds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:7 # text = Lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose; a 1958 nature film staged it by pushing them over the edge, and in real life some drown when crowds of them cross rivers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-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, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Lemmings lemming 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 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 1958 1958 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 staged stage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 by by SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 pushing push VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 advcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 over over ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 28 drown drown VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 when when SCONJ WRB _ 33 mark _ _ 30 crowds crowd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nmod _ _ 33 cross cross VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 34 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 . . 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** **jump off** | present · do-support | Lemmings | cliffs | | purpose | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cliff=Theme on purpose=Trajectory | | 2 | **stage** | past | a nature film | purpose | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **push** | gerund | a nature film *not said here* | films *= film* | | the edge | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme over edge=Trajectory | | 4 | **drown** | present | some | | | real life | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cross** | present | crowds of films | rivers | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:7`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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