The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings, sentence 6

The arctic fox has a brown or grey coat in summer and a thick white coat in winter, and it sometimes follows polar bears to eat their leftovers.

Who acts: arctic fox, coat · What happens: have, follow, eat · To what, where: brown coat, polar bears, leftovers

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 (arctic fox, coat), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
2	arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fox	amod
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 coat	det
6	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 coat	amod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 grey	cc
8	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brown	conj
9	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 summer	case
11	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 coat	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 coat	det
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 coat	amod
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 coat	amod
16	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coat	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 winter	case
18	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 coat	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 follows	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 follows	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 follows	nsubj
22	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 follows	advmod
23	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
24	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bears	amod
25	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 follows	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 eat	mark
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 follows	advcl
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 leftovers	nmod:poss
29	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 eat	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the arctic fox	a brown coat and a thick white coat in winter	summer		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient
2	follow	present	coat	polar bears		sometimes property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	coat not said here	fox's leftovers			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leftover=Patient

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:6.

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. 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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