--- title: On a grassy hill in eastern Ukraine a sharp whistle rings out, and a… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta… · tree and pragmatics description: On a grassy hill in eastern Ukraine a sharp whistle rings out, and a fat furry animal standing up like a post dives underground. Who acts: sharp whistle, fat furry animal. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» of the biology course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/0/) [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/) / [Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, g…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/) / 0 # Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 0 On a grassy hill in eastern Ukraine a sharp whistle rings out, and a fat furry animal standing up like a post dives underground. **Who acts:** sharp whistle, fat furry animal · **What happens:** ring out, stand up, dive · **To what, where:** grassy hill This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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 (sharp whistle, fat furry animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.lesson:0 # text = On a grassy hill in eastern Ukraine a sharp whistle rings out, and a fat furry animal standing up like a post dives underground. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 grassy grassy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 rings ring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 furry furry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 19 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 dives dive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 underground underground ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ring out** | present | a sharp whistle | | | a grassy hill in eastern Ukraine | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=Location | | 2 | **stand up** | gerund | a fat furry animal *not said here* | | | | | like a post | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dive** | present | a fat furry animal | | | | | underground *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-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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