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title: Chinchillas of the high Andes have one of the thickest furs of any l… — Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prair… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chinchillas of the high Andes have one of the thickest furs of any land animal, with dozens of hairs from each tiny hole in the skin, and they bathe in dust because wet fur dries too slowly. Who acts: Chinchillas, wet fur. A sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie 
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# Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 15

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Chinchillas of the high Andes have one of the thickest furs of any land animal, with dozens of hairs from each tiny hole in the skin, and they bathe in dust because wet fur dries too slowly.

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**Who acts:** Chinchillas, wet fur · **What happens:** have, bathe, dry · **To what, where:** one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice» 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 (Chinchillas, wet fur), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:15
# text = Chinchillas of the high Andes have one of the thickest furs of any land animal, with dozens of hairs from each tiny hole in the skin, and they bathe in dust because wet fur dries too slowly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.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): no change
1	Chinchillas	chinchilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Andes	Andes	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	thickest	thick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	furs	fur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dozens	dozen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	bathe	bathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	dries	dry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
38	too	too	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **have** | present | Chinchillas of the high Andes | one of the thickest furs of any land animal with dozens of hairs from each tiny hole in the skin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **bathe** | present | chinchillas *= chinchilla* |  |  |  |  | in dust | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dust=Theme |
| 3 | **dry** | present | wet fur |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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): no change. **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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