--- title: Ostriches don't bury their heads; when in danger they lie flat or ru… — Wild animals and tall tales · tree and pragmatics description: Ostriches don't bury their heads; when in danger they lie flat or run at up to about 70 kilometres an hour, and they turn their eggs in nests dug in the ground. Who acts: Ostriches, tales. A sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/6/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Wild animals and tall tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/) / 6 # Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 6 Ostriches don't bury their heads; when in danger they lie flat or run at up to about 70 kilometres an hour, and they turn their eggs in nests dug in the ground. **Who acts:** Ostriches, tales · **What happens:** not bury, lie, run up, turn, dug · **To what, where:** heads, danger, eggs, nests, ground This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» of the myths 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, tales), 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:6 # text = Ostriches don't bury their heads; when in danger they lie flat or run at up to about 70 kilometres an hour, and they turn their eggs in nests dug in the ground. # 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): R5-strong ×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 n't 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 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 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 advcl _ _ 13 flat flat ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:unmarked _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 dug dug VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 acl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** **bury** | present · do-support | Ostriches | tales's heads | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 2 | **lie** | present | tales *= tale* | | | danger | | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in danger=Location | | 3 | **run up** | present | tales *= tale* *not said here* | | | | | to 70 kilometres a hour *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to kilometre=Result | | 4 | **turn** | present | tales *= tale* | tales's eggs | | | | in nests | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic | | 5 | **dug** | participle | | nests *not said here* | | the ground | | | tree rules | 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. 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