--- title: Alpine marmots are big ground squirrels that whistle to warn each ot… — Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prair… · tree and pragmatics description: Alpine marmots are big ground squirrels that whistle to warn each other of eagles and foxes and hibernate for about six months in family groups; the American groundhog is a marmot too. Who acts: Alpine marmots, big ground squirrels, American groundhog. 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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 (Alpine marmots, big ground squirrels, American groundhog), 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:8 # text = Alpine marmots are big ground squirrels that whistle to warn each other of eagles and foxes and hibernate for about six months in family groups; the American groundhog is a marmot too. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Alpine alpine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 marmots marmot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 squirrels squirrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 whistle whistle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp 11 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 eagles eagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 hibernate hibernate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 groundhog groundhog NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 marmot marmot NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 33 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Alpine marmots | big ground squirrels | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **whistle** | present | big ground squirrels | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | big ground squirrels *not said here* | each other of eagles and foxes | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient | | 4 | **hibernate** | infinitive | big ground squirrels *not said here* | | | family groups | month | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location | | 5 | **is a** | present | the American groundhog | a marmot | | | | | tree rules | 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:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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