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title: Rudolph's glowing nose, Hedwig the owl and lemmings jumping off clif… — The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudolph's glowing nose, Hedwig the owl and lemmings jumping off cliffs all come from films; the real stories are a nose full of warm blood, owls that hunt by daylight in summer, and a cliff scene that film makers faked. Who acts: lemmings, glowing nose, real stories, owls. A sentence of the lesson «
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# The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer, sentence 3

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Rudolph's glowing nose, Hedwig the owl and lemmings jumping off cliffs all come from films; the real stories are a nose full of warm blood, owls that hunt by daylight in summer, and a cliff scene that film makers faked.

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**Who acts:** lemmings, glowing nose, real stories, owls, film makers · **What happens:** glow, jump off, come, be, hunt, fake · **To what, where:** cliffs, films, nose, cliff scene

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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 (lemmings, glowing nose, real stories, owls), 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:3
# text = Rudolph's glowing nose, Hedwig the owl and lemmings jumping off cliffs all come from films; the real stories are a nose full of warm blood, owls that hunt by daylight in summer, and a cliff scene that film makers faked.
# 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 ×2
1	Rudolph	Rudolph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Hedwig	Hedwig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	obj	_	_
43	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	makers	maker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	faked	fake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **jump off** | gerund | lemmings *not said here* | cliffs |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | present | Rudolph's glowing nose and a nose and a cliff scene |  |  | films |  | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from film=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the real stories | a nose |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hunt** | present | owls |  |  |  | summer | by daylight | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by daylight=Location |
| 6 | **fake** | past | film makers | a cliff scene |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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**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. **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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