--- title: Lemmings don't kill themselves in groups; a 1958 Disney film staged… — Wild animals and tall tales · tree and pragmatics description: Lemmings don't kill themselves in groups; a 1958 Disney film staged it, and when there are too many lemmings they spread out and some drown crossing water by accident. Who acts: Lemmings, 1958 Disney film, many lemmings, some. 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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, many lemmings, some), 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:7 # text = Lemmings don't kill themselves in groups; a 1958 Disney film staged it, and when there are too many lemmings they spread out and some drown crossing water by accident. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 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 n't 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 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 1958 1958 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 11 Disney Disney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 staged stage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 17 when when SCONJ WRB _ 19 mark _ _ 18 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 19 expl _ _ 19 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 20 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 25 out out ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det 28 drown drown VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 29 crossing cross VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . 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* | | groups | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | | 2 | **stage** | past | a 1958 Disney film | head | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **does** | present | many lemmings | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **spread out** | past | lemmings *= lemming* | | | | | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **drown** | present | some | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **cross** | gerund | some *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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:7`. **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. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/6/) - next →: [Wild animals and tall tales, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/)