The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world, sentence 9

Reindeer, called caribou in North America, have broad hooves for snow and ice, dig for lichen in winter, and their eyes change from gold in summer to blue in winter.

Who acts: Reindeer, eyes · What happens: call, have, dig, change · To what, where: caribou, North America, broad hooves, gold · 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 (Reindeer, eyes), 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	Reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Reindeer	acl
4	caribou	caribou	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 America	case
6	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 America	compound
7	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hooves	amod
11	hooves	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 snow	case
13	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hooves	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ice	cc
15	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snow	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dig	punct
17	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 have	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 lichen	case
19	lichen	lichen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dig	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 winter	case
21	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dig	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 change	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 change	cc
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 eyes	nmod:poss
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 change	nsubj
26	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 have	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 gold	case
28	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 change	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 summer	case
30	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 change	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 blue	case
32	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 change	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 winter	case
34	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 change	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle	Reindeer not said here	caribou	North America			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	Reindeer	broad hooves			for snow and ice	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoof=Patient
3	dig	present	Reindeer not said here			winter	for lichen	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for lichen=Theme
4	change	present	hooves's eyes		gold	summer; winter	to blue result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from gold=Initial_State to blue=Result

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:9.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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