The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world, sentence 13

When wolves come, musk oxen form a ring with horns out and calves in the middle, and their woolly underfur, qiviut, is said to be about eight times warmer than sheep's wool.

Who acts: wolves, musk oxen · What happens: come, form, say, be · To what, where: ring, woolly underfur · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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 (wolves, musk oxen), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 come	advmod
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 form	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
5	musk	musk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oxen	compound
6	oxen	oxen	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 form	nsubj
7	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 form	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 horns	case
11	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ring	nmod
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 horns	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 calves	cc
14	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 horns	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 middle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 middle	det
17	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 horns	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 underfur	nmod:poss
21	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 underfur	amod
22	underfur	underfur	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj:pass
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 qiviut	punct
24	qiviut	qiviut	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 underfur	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 underfur	punct
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 said	aux:pass
27	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 form	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	33 warmer	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 warmer	cop
30	about	about	ADV	_	31 eight	advmod
31	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 times	nummod
32	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 warmer	obl:unmarked
33	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 said	xcomp
34	than	than	ADP	_	37 wool	case
35	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 wool	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 sheep	case
37	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 warmer	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 form	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	wolves				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	form	present	musk oxen	a ring		with horns in the middle and calves	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present · passive		horns's woolly underfur			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	is	to-infinitive			time	than sheep's wool; warm property	tree rules

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:006-the-arctic.lesson:13.

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): 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.

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