--- title: Some animals hibernate through winter when food is scarce, slowing t… — The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals · tree and pragmatics description: Some animals hibernate through winter when food is scarce, slowing their heart and breathing to save energy; hedgehogs, dormice and many bats hibernate, while bears sleep deeply but less deeply than true hibernators. Who acts: animals, food, hedgehogs, bears. 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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 (animals, food, hedgehogs, bears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:15 # text = Some animals hibernate through winter when food is scarce, slowing their heart and breathing to save energy; hedgehogs, dormice and many bats hibernate, while bears sleep deeply but less deeply than true hibernators. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hibernate hibernate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 through through ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 7 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 scarce scarce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 slowing slow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 hedgehogs hedgehog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 dormice dormouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 26 hibernate hibernate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 while while SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 31 deeply deeply ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 34 advmod _ _ 34 deeply deeply ADV RB _ 31 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 35 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 hibernators hibernator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hibernate** | present | some animals | | | | winter | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | food | | | | | scarce *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **slow** | gerund | some animals *not said here* | animals's heart | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 4 | **breathe** | gerund | some animals *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **save** | to-infinitive | some animals *not said here* | energy | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 6 | **hibernate** | present | hedgehogs and dormice and many bats | | | | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | | 7 | **sleep** | present | bears | | | | | deeply *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:15`. **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. 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