--- title: Reindeer eyes change from golden in summer to blue in winter, which… — The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmin… · tree and pragmatics description: Reindeer eyes change from golden in summer to blue in winter, which helps them see in the long dark winter. Who acts: Reindeer eyes, eyes. A sentence of the lesson «The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy ow…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer/) / 10 # The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer, sentence 10 Reindeer eyes change from golden in summer to blue in winter, which helps them see in the long dark winter. **Who acts:** Reindeer eyes, eyes · **What happens:** change, help, see · **To what, where:** golden, eyes 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 (Reindeer eyes, eyes), 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:10 # text = Reindeer eyes change from golden in summer to blue in winter, which helps them see in the long dark winter. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod 6 in in ADP IN ExtPos=SCONJ 7 case _ _ 7 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 9 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Reindeer eyes | | | golden | | to blue *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from golden=Initial\_State to blue=Result | | 2 | **help** | present | | eyes *= eye* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **see** | infinitive | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | | | | winter | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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](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:10`. **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, 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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