--- title: Take each one apart and it's even better: the ostrich is turning its… — Wild animals and tall tales · tree and pragmatics description: Take each one apart and it's even better: the ostrich is turning its eggs in a nest dug in the ground, and the lemming film was staged, with lemmings pushed off a ledge for the camera. Who acts: you, story, ostrich. 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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 (you, story, ostrich), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:3 # text = Take each one apart and it's even better: the ostrich is turning its eggs in a nest dug in the ground, and the lemming film was staged, with lemmings pushed off a ledge for the camera. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.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 ×2 1 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 apart apart ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 even even ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 dug dig VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 lemming lemming NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 staged stage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 with with SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl _ _ 35 off off ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ledge ledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obj 38 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 camera camera NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | each one | | | | apart *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | story | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **turn** | present · progressive | the ostrich | story's eggs | | | | in a nest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic | | 4 | **dig** | participle | | a nest *not said here* | | the ground | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in ground=Location | | 5 | **stage** | past · passive | | the lemming film | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **push off** | participle · passive | | lemmings | | | | for the camera; a ledge *obl* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «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:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:3`. **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 ×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: [Wild animals and tall tales, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/2/) - next →: [Wild animals and tall tales, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/)