--- title: Yaks live on the Tibetan plateau, often above 4000 metres, with long… — Mountains: life as you climb higher · tree and pragmatics description: Yaks live on the Tibetan plateau, often above 4000 metres, with long thick hair, a woolly undercoat and big lungs and hearts, and they find weather above about 15 degrees hard. Who acts: Yaks. 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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 (Yaks), 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:9 # text = Yaks live on the Tibetan plateau, often above 4000 metres, with long thick hair, a woolly undercoat and big lungs and hearts, and they find weather above about 15 degrees hard. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Yaks yak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Tibetan Tibetan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 6 plateau plateau NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 above above ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 4000 4000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 woolly woolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 undercoat undercoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 above above ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 about about ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 35 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **live** | present | Yaks | | | the Tibetan plateau | | above 4000 metres; with long thick hair and a woolly undercoat and big lungs and hearts | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with hair=Location | | 2 | **find** | present | yaks *= yak* | weather | | 15 degrees | | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Topic | 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:9`. **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 ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Mountains: life as you climb higher, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/8/) - next →: [Mountains: life as you climb higher, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/)