--- title: A fox walks in a nearly straight line, putting its back feet into it… — The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the… · tree and pragmatics description: A fox walks in a nearly straight line, putting its back feet into its front prints, and its prints show four toes and claw marks; dogs wander about more. Who acts: fox, prints, dogs. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» of the biology c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The garden in winter: bare trees, trac…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/) / 6 # The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where, sentence 6 A fox walks in a nearly straight line, putting its back feet into its front prints, and its prints show four toes and claw marks; dogs wander about more. **Who acts:** fox, prints, dogs · **What happens:** walk, put, show, wander, print · **To what, where:** straight line, back feet, front prints, four toes This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 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 (fox, prints, dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.lesson:6 # text = A fox walks in a nearly straight line, putting its back feet into its front prints, and its prints show four toes and claw marks; dogs wander about more. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.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 ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 prints print NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 prints print NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 wander wander VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 31 about about ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | present | a fox | | | a straight line | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory | | 2 | **put** | gerund | a fox *not said here* | fox's back feet | | fox's front prints | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal | | 3 | **show** | present | fox's prints | four toes and claw marks | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toe=Recipient | | 4 | **wander** | present | dogs | | | | | about more | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about more=Trajectory | | 5 | **print** | | fox | | | | | | nom print «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **print** | | fox | | | | | | nom print «communication transitive»: poss=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:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.lesson:6`. **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 ×3. **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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