--- title: The scream heard on winter nights is often a fox calling to find a m… — Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits · tree and pragmatics description: The scream heard on winter nights is often a fox calling to find a mate or mark its patch; foxes also bark, yelp and chatter, which is called gekkering. Who acts: scream, fox, foxes. 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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 (scream, fox, foxes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits.lesson:9 # text = The scream heard on winter nights is often a fox calling to find a mate or mark its patch; foxes also bark, yelp and chatter, which is called gekkering. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits.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, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scream scream NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 heard heard VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 acl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 mark mark VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 also also ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 bark bark VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 yelp yelp NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 chatter chatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl:relcl _ _ 32 gekkering gekker VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **heard** | participle | | the scream *not said here* | | | night | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the scream | a fox | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | gerund | a fox *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | a fox *not said here* | a mate | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | | 5 | **mark** | infinitive | a fox *not said here* | fox's patch | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent patch=Destination | | 6 | **bark** | present | foxes | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **call** | present · passive | | yelp and chatter | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **gekker** | gerund | | | | | | | 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. 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