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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 (Saharan silver ants, lizards, hairs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:9 # text = Saharan silver ants come out at the hottest time of day to find animals killed by the heat, while the lizards that hunt them hide from it; silver hairs reflect sunlight, and they can run nearly a metre a second. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Saharan Saharan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 out out ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 hottest hot ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 14 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:mark 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:amod 31 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 reflect reflect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 33 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 39 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 44 . . 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 | **come out** | present | Saharan silver ants | | | | time | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Saharan silver ants *not said here* | animals | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic | | 3 | **kill** | participle | | animals *not said here* | | | | by the heat | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **hunt** | present | the lizards | lizards *= lizard* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hide** | infinitive | the lizards *not said here* | | | heat | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from it=Beneficiary | | 6 | **reflect** | present | the lizards | sunlight | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **run** | can | hairs *= hair* | a metre | | | second | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory | 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:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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