--- title: Arctic foxes moult from white in winter to brown or grey in summer s… — The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmin… · tree and pragmatics description: Arctic foxes moult from white in winter to brown or grey in summer so they match snow and then rocks, and their winter coat is so warm they do not start to shiver until it is about minus 70 degrees. Who acts: Arctic foxes, makers, winter coat, fox. 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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 (Arctic foxes, makers, winter coat, fox), 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:4 # text = Arctic foxes moult from white in winter to brown or grey in summer so they match snow and then rocks, and their winter coat is so warm they do not start to shiver until it is about minus 70 degrees. # 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 1 Arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 moult moult VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 match match VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 17 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 rocks rock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 shiver shiver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 until until SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 38 about about ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 minus minus ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **moult** | present | Arctic foxes | | | white | | to brown | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **match** | present | makers *= maker* | snow | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Patient | | 3 | **rock** | present | makers *= maker* *not said here* | | | | then | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | makers's winter coat | | | | | warm *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **start** | present · do-support | makers *= maker* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **not** **shiver** | to-infinitive | makers *= maker* *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is a** | present | fox | 70 degrees | | | | | 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:4`. **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. **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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