--- title: Lemmings (small furry animals of the far north) do not jump off clif… — Friends who cling to a legend · tree and pragmatics description: Lemmings (small furry animals of the far north) do not jump off cliffs to die all together; a 1958 nature film helped spread the story with scenes that were staged. Who acts: Lemmings, nature 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, nature film), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:15 # text = Lemmings (small furry animals of the far north) do not jump off cliffs to die all together; a 1958 nature film helped spread the story with scenes that were staged. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 furry furry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:nmod 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 18 all all ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 19 together together ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 1958 1958 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 26 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 scenes scene NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 staged stage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl 34 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **jump off** | present · do-support | Lemmings | cliffs | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory | | 2 | **die** | to-infinitive | Lemmings *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **help** | past | a nature film | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **spread** | infinitive | a nature film *not said here* | the story | | | | with scenes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent story=Destination with scene=Theme | | 5 | **stage** | past · passive | | scenes | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:15`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Friends who cling to a legend, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/14/) - next →: [Friends who cling to a legend, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/)