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title: Llamas and alpacas live in the Andes; their blood carries oxygen wel… — Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flyi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Llamas and alpacas live in the Andes; their blood carries oxygen well, and they spit mostly at each other to settle arguments. Who acts: Llamas, blood. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» of the biology course of Mova's pri
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# Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 12

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Llamas and alpacas live in the Andes; their blood carries oxygen well, and they spit mostly at each other to settle arguments.

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**Who acts:** Llamas, blood · **What happens:** live, carry, spit, settle · **To what, where:** Andes, oxygen, each, arguments

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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 (Llamas, blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:12
# text = Llamas and alpacas live in the Andes; their blood carries oxygen well, and they spit mostly at each other to settle arguments.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Llamas	llama	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	alpacas	alpaca	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Andes	Andes	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod:poss
10	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
12	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	spit	spit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	17	obl	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	fixed	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
24	arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Llamas and alpacas |  |  | the Andes |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in andes=Location |
| 2 | **carry** | present | Llamas's blood | oxygen |  |  |  | well *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme |
| 3 | **spit** | present | Llamas *= llama* |  |  | each |  | mostly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **settle** | to-infinitive | Llamas *= llama* *not said here* | arguments |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme argument=Location |

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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:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:12`.

**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, R7-rel-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.

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

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