--- title: Arctic plants grow low and close together out of the wind, and some… — The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snow… · tree and pragmatics description: Arctic plants grow low and close together out of the wind, and some arctic flowers turn to follow the sun like little dishes that warm visiting insects. Who acts: Arctic plants, arctic flowers, little dishes. A sentence of the lesson «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/12/) [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/) / [The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic f…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/) / 12 # The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings, sentence 12 Arctic plants grow low and close together out of the wind, and some arctic flowers turn to follow the sun like little dishes that warm visiting insects. **Who acts:** Arctic plants, arctic flowers, little dishes · **What happens:** grow, close, turn, follow, warm, visiting · **To what, where:** wind, sun, visiting insects This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings» 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 (Arctic plants, arctic flowers, little dishes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings.lesson:12 # text = Arctic plants grow low and close together out of the wind, and some arctic flowers turn to follow the sun like little dishes that warm visiting insects. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings.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 1 Arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 close close VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 7 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 out out ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 15 arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 dishes dish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 warm warm VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 visiting visiting VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 amod _ _ 28 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Arctic plants | | | | | low *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **close** | infinitive | Arctic plants *not said here* | | | the wind | | together *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **turn** | present | some arctic flowers | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **follow** | to-infinitive | some arctic flowers *not said here* | the sun | | | | like little dishes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | | 5 | **warm** | present | little dishes | visiting insects | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent insect=Patient | | 6 | **visiting** | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings.lesson:12`. **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. **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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