--- title: The Arctic woolly bear caterpillar freezes solid each winter and tha… — The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snow… · tree and pragmatics description: The Arctic woolly bear caterpillar freezes solid each winter and thaws in summer, and it may take several years to become a moth because summers are so short. Who acts: Arctic woolly bear caterpillar, summers. 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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 (Arctic woolly bear caterpillar, summers), 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:16 # text = The Arctic woolly bear caterpillar freezes solid each winter and thaws in summer, and it may take several years to become a moth because summers are so short. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 Arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 woolly woolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 freezes freeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 thaws thaw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj 17 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 19 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advcl 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 moth moth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 summers summer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **freeze** | present | the Arctic woolly bear caterpillar | | | | winter | solid *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **thaw** | present | the Arctic woolly bear caterpillar *not said here* | | | | summer | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **take** | may | the Arctic woolly bear caterpillar *not said here* | caterpillar | | | year | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **become** | to-infinitive | | a moth | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | summers | | | | | short *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:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings.lesson:16`. **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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