The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings, sentence 2
Many tundra animals change clothes with the seasons, the way you swap a summer T-shirt for a winter coat: the arctic fox and the ptarmigan turn white for the snow and brown for the summer ground.
Who acts: Many tundra animals, you, arctic fox · What happens: change, swap, turn · To what, where: clothes, summer T shirt
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings» of the biology 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 (Many tundra animals, you, arctic fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animals | amod |
| 2 | tundra | tundra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 animals | compound |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 change | nsubj |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 change | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 seasons | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 seasons | det |
| 8 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 change | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 way | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 swap | nsubj |
| 13 | swap | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 way | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 shirt | det |
| 15 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shirt | compound |
| 16 | T | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shirt | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 T | punct |
| 18 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swap | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 coat | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 coat | det |
| 21 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coat | compound |
| 22 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swap | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 fox | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fox | det |
| 25 | arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fox | amod |
| 26 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 turn | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ptarmigan | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ptarmigan | det |
| 29 | ptarmigan | ptarmigan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fox | conj |
| 30 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 change | parataxis |
| 31 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 turn | xcomp |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 snow | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 snow | det |
| 34 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 turn | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 brown | cc |
| 36 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 white | conj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 ground | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 ground | det |
| 39 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ground | compound |
| 40 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 turn | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 change | punct |
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 | change | present | Many tundra animals | clothes | season | the way obl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||
| 2 | swap | present | you | a summer T shirt | for a winter coat | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme for coat=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | present | the arctic fox and the ptarmigan | for the snow; for the summer ground; white property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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, 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:biology:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings.lesson:2.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.
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