--- title: A fox can hear a small animal under snow, leap high and pounce nose… — Foxes and squirrels · tree and pragmatics description: A fox can hear a small animal under snow, leap high and pounce nose first; some scientists think foxes may use the Earth's magnetic field to aim, but this is not yet proven. Who acts: fox, scientists, foxes, this. 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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 (fox, scientists, foxes, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:215-foxes-and-squirrels.lesson:5 # text = A fox can hear a small animal under snow, leap high and pounce nose first; some scientists think foxes may use the Earth's magnetic field to aim, but this is not yet proven. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 215-foxes-and-squirrels.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 under under ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 leap leap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 12 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 pounce pounce NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 magnetic magnetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 aim aim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 36 yet yet ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 proven prove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed act=assert, hedge=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | can | a fox | a small animal | | snow | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | | 2 | **leap** | infinitive | a fox *not said here* | | | | | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **use** | may | foxes | the Earth's magnetic field | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient | | 5 | **aim** | to-infinitive | foxes *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **not** **prove** | present · passive | this | | | | yet | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | 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. 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