--- title: Snowy owls hunt lemmings and can hear them moving under the snow, an… — The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snow… · tree and pragmatics description: Snowy owls hunt lemmings and can hear them moving under the snow, and they hunt by day as well as at night because Arctic summer days never get dark. Who acts: Snowy owls, lemmings, Arctic summer days. 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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 (Snowy owls, lemmings, Arctic summer days), 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:9 # text = Snowy owls hunt lemmings and can hear them moving under the snow, and they hunt by day as well as at night because Arctic summer days never get dark. # 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 Snowy snowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 xcomp _ _ 10 under under ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 16 advmod _ _ 20 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 fixed _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 Arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:amod 26 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 30 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **hunt** | present | Snowy owls | lemmings | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemming=Theme | | 2 | **hear** | can | Snowy owls *not said here* | lemmings *= lemming* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **move** | gerund | lemmings *= lemming* *not said here* | | | the snow | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under snow=Trajectory | | 4 | **hunt** | present | lemmings *= lemming* | | | | day | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **get** | present | Arctic summer days | | | | | dark *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:9`. **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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