--- title: And the story that lemmings jump off cliffs together is not true: it… — Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole… · tree and pragmatics description: And the story that lemmings jump off cliffs together is not true: it was made popular by a 1958 nature film in which the lemmings were pushed. Who acts: lemmings, story, nature film. A sentence of the lesson «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings ju --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings/4/) [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/) / [Team players and partners: meerkats, n…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings/) / 4 # Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?), sentence 4 And the story that lemmings jump off cliffs together is not true: it was made popular by a 1958 nature film in which the lemmings were pushed. **Who acts:** lemmings, story, nature film · **What happens:** jump off, not be, make, push · **To what, where:** story, lemmings, nature film This is a sentence of the lesson «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?)» 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 (lemmings, story, nature film), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:4 # text = And the story that lemmings jump off cliffs together is not true: it was made popular by a 1958 nature film in which the lemmings were pushed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-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 And and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 obj _ _ 5 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 jump jump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 off off ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 17 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 1958 1958 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl:relcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump off** | present | lemmings | the story | | | | off cliffs; together *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | the story | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | past · passive | a nature film | story | | | | popular *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | | 4 | **push** | past · passive | | the lemmings | | a nature film | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=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:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:4`. **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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