--- title: The arctic fox has a brown or grey coat in summer and a thick white… — The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snow… · tree and pragmatics description: The arctic fox has a brown or grey coat in summer and a thick white coat in winter, and it sometimes follows polar bears to eat their leftovers. Who acts: arctic fox, coat. A sentence of the lesson «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings» of the biology c --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings, sentence 6 The arctic fox has a brown or grey coat in summer and a thick white coat in winter, and it sometimes follows polar bears to eat their leftovers. **Who acts:** arctic fox, coat · **What happens:** have, follow, eat · **To what, where:** brown coat, polar bears, leftovers 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 fox, coat), 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:6 # text = The arctic fox has a brown or grey coat in summer and a thick white coat in winter, and it sometimes follows polar bears to eat their leftovers. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 23 advmod _ _ 23 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 leftovers leftover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the arctic fox | a brown coat and a thick white coat in winter | | | summer | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient | | 2 | **follow** | present | coat | polar bears | | | | sometimes *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | coat *not said here* | fox's leftovers | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leftover=Patient | 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:6`. **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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