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title: The Eurasian lynx lives in the Carpathians and Polissia, is rare and… — Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Eurasian lynx lives in the Carpathians and Polissia, is rare and protected, has big furry snowshoe paws, a short stubby tail and two black ear tufts, and hunts hares and roe deer. Who acts: Eurasian lynx. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown 
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# Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears, sentence 12

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The Eurasian lynx lives in the Carpathians and Polissia, is rare and protected, has big furry snowshoe paws, a short stubby tail and two black ear tufts, and hunts hares and roe deer.

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**Who acts:** Eurasian lynx · **What happens:** live, be, protect, have, hunt · **To what, where:** Carpathians, big furry snowshoe paws

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears» 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 (Eurasian lynx), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.lesson:12
# text = The Eurasian lynx lives in the Carpathians and Polissia, is rare and protected, has big furry snowshoe paws, a short stubby tail and two black ear tufts, and hunts hares and roe deer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	Eurasian	eurasian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	lynx	lynx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Carpathians	carpathian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Polissia	Polissia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	furry	furry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	snowshoe	snowshoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	stubby	stubby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
28	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	tufts	tuft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	hunts	hunt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	roe	roe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the Eurasian lynx |  |  | the Carpathians and Polissia |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in carpathian=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Eurasian lynx *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **protect** | participle | the Eurasian lynx *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | present | the Eurasian lynx *not said here* | big furry snowshoe paws and a short stubby tail and two black ear tufts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient |
| 5 | **hunt** | present | the Eurasian lynx *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.lesson:12`.

**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, 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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