--- title: Mountain animals are champions of cold and thin air: shaggy yaks wit… — Mountains: life as you climb higher · tree and pragmatics description: Mountain animals are champions of cold and thin air: shaggy yaks with big hearts and lungs, ibex with grippy hooves on cliffs, marmots whistling a warning, a snow leopard wrapped in its own tail like a scarf. Who acts: Mountain animals, marmots. 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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 (Mountain animals, marmots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.lesson:3 # text = Mountain animals are champions of cold and thin air: shaggy yaks with big hearts and lungs, ibex with grippy hooves on cliffs, marmots whistling a warning, a snow leopard wrapped in its own tail like a scarf. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3 1 Mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 champions champion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 8 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 shaggy shaggy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 yaks yak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 17 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 ibex ibex NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 grippy grippy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 hooves hoof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 marmots marmot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 27 whistling whistle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 leopard leopard NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 34 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 scarf scarf NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nmod 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is a** | present | Mountain animals | champions and shaggy yaks with big hearts and lungs and ibex with grippy hooves on cliffs and marmots and a snow leopard | | | | of cold air | tree rules | | 2 | **whistle** | gerund | marmots *not said here* | a warning | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Topic | | 3 | **wrap** | participle | | a snow leopard *not said here* | | air's own tail | | like a scarf | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in tail=Destination | 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:013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.lesson:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Mountains: life as you climb higher, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/2/) - next →: [Mountains: life as you climb higher, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/)