--- title: Flying squirrels glide from tree to tree on a flap of skin between t… — Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prair… · tree and pragmatics description: Flying squirrels glide from tree to tree on a flap of skin between their front and back legs, so they need not climb down where predators wait; in 2019 scientists found their fur glows pink under ultraviolet light, and nobody knows why. Who acts: Flying squirrels, squirrels, predators, scientists. 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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 (Flying squirrels, squirrels, predators, scientists), 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:7 # text = Flying squirrels glide from tree to tree on a flap of skin between their front and back legs, so they need not climb down where predators wait; in 2019 scientists found their fur glows pink under ultraviolet light, and nobody knows why. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 squirrels squirrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 glide glide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 flap flap NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 between between ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 15 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 need need AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 25 down down ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 27 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nummod 32 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 glows glow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 37 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 38 under under ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 ultraviolet ultraviolet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 40 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 44 nsubj _ _ 44 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 45 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 44 advmod _ _ 46 . . 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 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **glide** | present | Flying squirrels | | | tree to tree | | on a flap of skin between squirrels's front legs | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from tree=Source on flap=Trajectory | | 3 | **not** **climb down** | present | squirrels *= squirrel* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wait** | present | predators | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **find** | past | scientists | 2019 | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **glow** | present | squirrels's fur | | | ultraviolet light | | pink *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under light=Location | | 7 | **know** | present | nobody | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:7`. **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 ×3, 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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