The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world, sentence 7
The Arctic fox sleeps with its bushy tail over its nose, has small ears, short legs and very thick fur, and turns white in winter and brown or grey in summer, so it matches the snow or the bare ground.
Who acts: Arctic fox, fox · What happens: sleep, have, turn, match · To what, where: small ears, snow
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 (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 sleeps | nsubj |
| 4 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tail | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bushy | bushy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tail | amod |
| 8 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleeps | obl |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 nose | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nose | nmod:poss |
| 11 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tail | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleeps | conj |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ears | amod |
| 15 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 has | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 legs | punct |
| 17 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 legs | amod |
| 18 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ears | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fur | cc |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 thick | advmod |
| 21 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fur | amod |
| 22 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ears | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turns | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 turns | cc |
| 25 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleeps | conj |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 turns | xcomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 winter | case |
| 28 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turns | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 brown | cc |
| 30 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 white | conj |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 grey | cc |
| 32 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 brown | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 summer | case |
| 34 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 brown | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 matches | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 matches | advmod |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 matches | nsubj |
| 38 | matches | match | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleeps | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 snow | det |
| 40 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 matches | obj |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 ground | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 ground | det |
| 43 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 ground | amod |
| 44 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 snow | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | the Arctic fox | with fox's bushy tail over fox's nose | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the Arctic fox not said here | small ears and short legs and thick fur | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | the Arctic fox not said here | winter | white property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | match | present | fox | the snow or the bare ground | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=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:006-the-arctic.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): R6-punct-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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