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title: It is a steppe marmot, bobak, warning its family that an eagle is ov… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a steppe marmot, bobak, warning its family that an eagle is overhead. Who acts: animal, steppe marmot, eagle. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 1

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It is a steppe marmot, bobak, warning its family that an eagle is overhead.

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**Who acts:** animal, steppe marmot, eagle · **What happens:** be, warn · **To what, where:** steppe marmot, family · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (animal, steppe marmot, eagle), 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:1
# text = It is a steppe marmot, bobak, warning its family that an eagle is overhead.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	marmot	marmot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bobak	bobak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	warning	warn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	overhead	overhead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | animal | a steppe marmot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | gerund | a steppe marmot *not said here* | animal's family |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | a eagle |  |  |  |  | overhead *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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 ×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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