How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, sentence 7
The arctic fox grows a thick white coat for the snowy winter and a thinner brown-grey coat for summer, so it matches the ground in both seasons.
Who acts: arctic fox, fox · What happens: grow, match · To what, where: thick white coat, ground
This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry» 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, 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 | 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 grows | nsubj |
| 4 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coat | det |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 coat | amod |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 coat | amod |
| 8 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 winter | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 winter | det |
| 11 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 winter | amod |
| 12 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 coat | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 coat | det |
| 15 | thinner | thinner | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 coat | amod |
| 16 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grey | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 brown | punct |
| 18 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coat | amod |
| 19 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 winter | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 summer | case |
| 21 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coat | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 matches | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 matches | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 matches | nsubj |
| 25 | matches | match | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grows | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ground | det |
| 27 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 matches | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 seasons | case |
| 29 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 seasons | det |
| 30 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 matches | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grows | 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 | grow | present | the arctic fox | a thick white coat | winter | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coat=Theme | |||
| 2 | match | present | fox | the ground | season | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=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:051-how-animals-hide.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 ×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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