--- title: Lemmings do not kill themselves; in years with very many lemmings th… — Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemm… · tree and pragmatics description: Lemmings do not kill themselves; in years with very many lemmings they move to new places and some drown crossing water, and a 1958 Disney film faked its famous cliff scene by pushing lemmings over. Who acts: Lemmings, 1958 Disney film. 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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, 1958 Disney film), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:6 # text = Lemmings do not kill themselves; in years with very many lemmings they move to new places and some drown crossing water, and a 1958 Disney film faked its famous cliff scene by pushing lemmings over. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.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 ×2 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 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj 20 drown drown VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 crossing cross VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det 26 1958 1958 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 27 Disney Disney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 faked fake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 31 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 scene scene NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 by by SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 pushing push VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 36 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 over over ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 38 . . 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** **kill** | present · do-support | Lemmings | lemmings *= lemming* | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | | 2 | **move** | present | lemmings *= lemming* | | | new places | year | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to place=Trajectory | | 3 | **drown** | present | lemmings *= lemming* *not said here* | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cross** | gerund | lemmings *= lemming* *not said here* | some water | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 5 | **fake** | past | a 1958 Disney film | film's famous cliff scene | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Patient | | 6 | **push over** | gerund | a 1958 Disney film *not said here* | lemmings | | | | over *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemming=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:6`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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