--- title: Snowy owls hunt in daylight in the Arctic summer, when the sun never… — The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmin… · tree and pragmatics description: Snowy owls hunt in daylight in the Arctic summer, when the sun never sets, and eat mostly lemmings, raising many more chicks in good lemming years; Hedwig in Harry Potter was a snowy owl, played by whiter male owls. Who acts: Snowy owls, sun, Hedwig. 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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 (Snowy owls, sun, Hedwig), 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:6 # text = Snowy owls hunt in daylight in the Arctic summer, when the sun never sets, and eat mostly lemmings, raising many more chicks in good lemming years; Hedwig in Harry Potter was a snowy owl, played by whiter male owls. # 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 Snowy snowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 sets set VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 raising raise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 25 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 lemming lemming NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Hedwig Hedwig PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Harry Harry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 Potter Potter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 flat _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 snowy snowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 whiter white ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 44 amod _ _ 43 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl:agent _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | present | Snowy owls | | | daylight | summer | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in daylight=Location | | 2 | **not** **set** | present | the sun | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **eat** | present | | lemmings | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemming=Patient | | 4 | **raise** | gerund | | more chicks | | | year | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | Hedwig in Harry | a snowy owl | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **play** | participle | | a snowy owl *not said here* | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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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