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title: Musk ox underwool, called qiviut, is warmer than sheep's wool, and p… — The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snow… · tree and pragmatics
description: Musk ox underwool, called qiviut, is warmer than sheep's wool, and people collect it when it falls out in spring. Who acts: Musk ox underwool, people, underwool. A sentence of the lesson «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings» of the biology course of Mo
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# The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings, sentence 5

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Musk ox underwool, called qiviut, is warmer than sheep's wool, and people collect it when it falls out in spring.

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**Who acts:** Musk ox underwool, people, underwool · **What happens:** call, be, collect, fall out · **To what, where:** qiviut, underwool · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Musk ox underwool, people, underwool), 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:5
# text = Musk ox underwool, called qiviut, is warmer than sheep's wool, and people collect it when it falls out in spring.
# 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): no change
1	Musk	musk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	underwool	underwool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	qiviut	qiviut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	collect	collect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **call** | participle | Musk ox underwool *not said here* | qiviut |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Musk ox underwool |  |  |  |  | than sheep's wool; warm *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **collect** | present | people | underwool |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **fall out** | present | underwool |  |  |  | spring |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP 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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**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:5`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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