--- title: Marmots are big ground squirrels of mountain meadows that whistle wh… — Mountains: life as you climb higher · tree and pragmatics description: Marmots are big ground squirrels of mountain meadows that whistle when they see an eagle or a fox, so everyone dives into the burrows; Alpine marmots hibernate about six months a year. Who acts: Marmots, big ground squirrels, everyone, Alpine marmots. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Mountains: life as you climb higher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/) / 8 # Mountains: life as you climb higher, sentence 8 Marmots are big ground squirrels of mountain meadows that whistle when they see an eagle or a fox, so everyone dives into the burrows; Alpine marmots hibernate about six months a year. **Who acts:** Marmots, big ground squirrels, everyone, Alpine marmots · **What happens:** be, whistle, see, dive, hibernate · **To what, where:** big ground squirrels, eagle, burrows This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you climb higher» 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 (Marmots, big ground squirrels, everyone, Alpine 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:8 # text = Marmots are big ground squirrels of mountain meadows that whistle when they see an eagle or a fox, so everyone dives into the burrows; Alpine marmots hibernate about six months a year. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Marmots marmot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 squirrels squirrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 whistle whistle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 22 nsubj _ _ 22 dives dive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 burrows burrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 27 Alpine alpine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 marmots marmot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 hibernate hibernate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:unmarked _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Marmots | big ground squirrels | | | | of mountain meadows | tree rules | | 2 | **whistle** | present | big ground squirrels | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **see** | present | marmots *= marmot* | a eagle or a fox | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus | | 4 | **dive** | present | everyone | | | the burrows | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into burrow=Location | | 5 | **hibernate** | present | Alpine marmots | | | | month | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | 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:8`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Mountains: life as you climb higher, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/7/) - next →: [Mountains: life as you climb higher, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/)