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title: Many tundra animals change clothes with the seasons, the way you swa… — The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snow… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many tundra animals change clothes with the seasons, the way you swap a summer T-shirt for a winter coat: the arctic fox and the ptarmigan turn white for the snow and brown for the summer ground. Who acts: Many tundra animals, you, arctic fox. A sentence of the lesson «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, 
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# The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings, sentence 2

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Many tundra animals change clothes with the seasons, the way you swap a summer T-shirt for a winter coat: the arctic fox and the ptarmigan turn white for the snow and brown for the summer ground.

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**Who acts:** Many tundra animals, you, arctic fox · **What happens:** change, swap, turn · **To what, where:** clothes, summer T shirt

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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 (Many tundra animals, you, arctic fox), 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:2
# text = Many tundra animals change clothes with the seasons, the way you swap a summer T-shirt for a winter coat: the arctic fox and the ptarmigan turn white for the snow and brown for the summer ground.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	tundra	tundra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	swap	swap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	T	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	arctic	arctic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ptarmigan	ptarmigan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | Many tundra animals | clothes |  |  | season | the way *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 2 | **swap** | present | you | a summer T shirt |  |  |  | for a winter coat | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme for coat=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | present | the arctic fox and the ptarmigan |  |  |  |  | for the snow; for the summer ground; white *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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