--- title: A reindeer's nose is packed with tiny blood vessels that warm the co… — The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmin… · tree and pragmatics description: A reindeer's nose is packed with tiny blood vessels that warm the cold air it breathes, and scientists once wrote a joke-serious study on why Rudolph's nose could be red. Who acts: tiny blood vessels, nose, scientists. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny blood vessels, nose, scientists), 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:12 # text = A reindeer's nose is packed with tiny blood vessels that warm the cold air it breathes, and scientists once wrote a joke-serious study on why Rudolph's nose could be red. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 packed packed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 vessels vessel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 warm warm VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 breathes breathe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 22 advmod _ _ 22 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 28 on on SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 29 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 30 Rudolph Rudolph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 35 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **packed** | present · passive | | a reindeer's nose | | | | with tiny blood vessels | tree rules | | 2 | **warm** | present | tiny blood vessels | the cold air | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient | | 3 | **breathe** | present | nose | the cold air *not said here* | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 4 | **write** | past | scientists | a serious study | | | | once *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent study=Theme | | 5 | **is** | could | Rudolph's nose | | | | | red *property* | tree rules | 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:12`. **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, 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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