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title: Many Arctic animals change with the seasons: the arctic fox is white… — The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many Arctic animals change with the seasons: the arctic fox is white in winter and brown or grey in summer, reindeer eyes turn from golden to blue for the dark winter, and reindeer hooves harden to cut into ice. Who acts: Many Arctic animals, arctic fox, reindeer eyes, reindeer hooves. A sentence of
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# The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer, sentence 1

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Many Arctic animals change with the seasons: the arctic fox is white in winter and brown or grey in summer, reindeer eyes turn from golden to blue for the dark winter, and reindeer hooves harden to cut into ice.

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**Who acts:** Many Arctic animals, arctic fox, reindeer eyes, reindeer hooves · **What happens:** change, be, turn, harden, cut · **To what, where:** golden

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer» 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 (Many Arctic animals, arctic fox, reindeer eyes, reindeer hooves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer.lesson:1
# text = Many Arctic animals change with the seasons: the arctic fox is white in winter and brown or grey in summer, reindeer eyes turn from golden to blue for the dark winter, and reindeer hooves harden to cut into ice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer.lesson
# annotation = 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	arctic	arctic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
37	hooves	hoof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	harden	harden	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	into	into	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | Many Arctic animals |  |  |  | season |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the arctic fox |  |  |  | summer; winter | white *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the arctic fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn** | present | reindeer eyes |  |  | golden | winter | to blue *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from golden=Initial\_State to blue=Result |
| 5 | **harden** | present | reindeer hooves |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cut** | to-infinitive | reindeer hooves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into ice | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into ice=Patient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer.lesson:1`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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