--- title: Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand; they lie low with thei… — "How do you know?" · tree and pragmatics description: Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand; they lie low with their necks along the ground and turn their eggs in nests dug in the sand. Who acts: Ostriches. A sentence of the lesson «"How do you know?"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/186-how-do-you-know/18/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / ["How do you know?"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/186-how-do-you-know/) / 18 # "How do you know?", sentence 18 Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand; they lie low with their necks along the ground and turn their eggs in nests dug in the sand. **Who acts:** Ostriches · **What happens:** not bury, lie, turn, dig · **To what, where:** heads, sand, eggs, nests This is a sentence of the lesson «"How do you know?"» of the world 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:186-how-do-you-know.lesson:18 # text = Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand; they lie low with their necks along the ground and turn their eggs in nests dug in the sand. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 186-how-do-you-know.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, 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 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 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 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 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 16 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 dug dig VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . 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** **bury** | present · do-support | Ostriches | ostriches's heads | | the sand | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sand=Destination | | 2 | **lie** | present | ostriches *= ostrich* | | | | | with ostriches's necks along the ground; low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn** | present | ostriches *= ostrich* *not said here* | ostriches's eggs | | | | in nests | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic | | 4 | **dig** | participle | | nests *not said here* | | the sand | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location | 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:world:186-how-do-you-know.lesson:18`. **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 ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: ["How do you know?", 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/186-how-do-you-know/17/) - next →: ["How do you know?", 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/186-how-do-you-know/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/186-how-do-you-know/)