--- title: In winter lemmings live in a space between the ground and the snow;… — Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs? · tree and pragmatics description: In winter lemmings live in a space between the ground and the snow; snow is full of trapped air, so it works like a blanket and keeps them near freezing point while the air above is far colder. Who acts: lemmings, snow, air. 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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 (lemmings, snow, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs.lesson:14 # text = In winter lemmings live in a space between the ground and the snow; snow is full of trapped air, so it works like a blanket and keeps them near freezing point while the air above is far colder. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 between between ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 trapped trap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nmod 21 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 near near ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 freezing freezing NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 while while SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 37 above above ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:advmod 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 advmod _ _ 40 colder cold ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 advcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | lemmings | | | a space between the ground and the snow | winter | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in space=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | snow | | | | | of trapped air; full *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **trap** | participle | | | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **work** | present | snow | | | | | like a blanket | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **keep** | present | snow *not said here* | lemmings *= lemming* | | freezing point | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme near point=Location | | 6 | **is** | present | the air | | | | | cold, far *property* | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs.lesson:14`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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