The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world, sentence 2

Arctic animals are built like thermos flasks: thick fur and fat, small ears, short legs and snouts, and tricks like sleeping under a bushy tail or living in tunnels under the snow blanket.

Who acts: tricks · What happens: build, sleep, live · To what, where: Arctic animals, bushy tail, tunnels

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 (tricks), 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	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 built	aux:pass
4	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 flasks	case
6	thermos	thermos	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flasks	compound
7	flasks	flask	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 fur	punct
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fur	amod
10	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flasks	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fat	cc
12	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fur	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ears	punct
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ears	amod
15	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fur	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 legs	punct
17	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 legs	amod
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fur	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 snouts	cc
20	snouts	snout	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fur	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tricks	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tricks	cc
23	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flasks	conj
24	like	like	SCONJ	_	25 sleeping	mark
25	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 tricks	acl
26	under	under	ADP	_	29 tail	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 tail	det
28	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tail	amod
29	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sleeping	obl
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 living	cc
31	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 sleeping	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 tunnels	case
33	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 living	obl
34	under	under	ADP	_	37 blanket	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 blanket	det
36	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 blanket	compound
37	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 living	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 built	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive		Arctic animals		like thermos flasks and tricks	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	sleep	gerund	tricks not said here		a bushy tail		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	live	gerund	tricks not said here		tunnels	under the snow blanket	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tunnel=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, 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: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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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