--- title: Before winter marmots get very fat; then their heart slows to a few… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta… · tree and pragmatics description: Before winter marmots get very fat; then their heart slows to a few beats a minute, the body cools, the family sleeps together for warmth and they plug the burrow with grass and earth. Who acts: winter marmots, heart, body, family. 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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 (winter marmots, heart, body, family), 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:10 # text = Before winter marmots get very fat; then their heart slows to a few beats a minute, the body cools, the family sleeps together for warmth and they plug the burrow with grass and earth. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 marmots marmot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 14 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 beats beat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 cools cool VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 26 together together ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 plug plug VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 burrow burrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **get** | present | winter marmots | | | | | fat *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **slow** | present | burrows's heart | | | | then | to a few beats | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **cool** | present | the body | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **sleep together** | present | the family | | | | | for warmth; together *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **plug** | present | burrows *= burrow* | the burrow | | | | with grass and earth | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent burrow=Destination with grass=Theme | 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:10`. **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 ×2, 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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