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title: Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand; they lie flat with th… — Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemm… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand; they lie flat with their necks along the ground to hide, and they turn their eggs in the nest with their beaks, so from far away the head seems buried. Who acts: Ostriches, lemmings, head. A sentence of the lesson «Animal myths put right: elephants and 
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# Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 7

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Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand; they lie flat with their necks along the ground to hide, and they turn their eggs in the nest with their beaks, so from far away the head seems buried.

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**Who acts:** Ostriches, lemmings, head · **What happens:** not bury, lie, hide, turn, seem, bury · **To what, where:** heads, sand, ground, eggs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» 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 (Ostriches, lemmings, head), 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:7
# text = Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand; they lie flat with their necks along the ground to hide, and they turn their eggs in the nest with their beaks, so from far away the head seems buried.
# 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 ×2, 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	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	along	along	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	obl	_	_
38	away	away	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
42	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	xcomp	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bury** | present · do-support | Ostriches | lemmings's heads |  | the sand |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sand=Destination |
| 2 | **lie** | present | lemmings *= lemming* |  |  | the ground |  | with lemmings's necks; flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along ground=Location |
| 3 | **hide** | to-infinitive | lemmings *= lemming* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn** | present | lemmings *= lemming* | lemmings's eggs |  |  |  | with lemmings's beaks; in the nest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic |
| 5 | **seem** | present | the head |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **bury** | participle | the head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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 ×2, 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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