--- title: Sousliks are a main food for steppe eagles, imperial eagles and step… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta… · tree and pragmatics description: Sousliks are a main food for steppe eagles, imperial eagles and steppe polecats, so when souslik colonies disappear these hunters disappear too. Who acts: Sousliks, souslik colonies, hunters. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» of the biolo --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 13 Sousliks are a main food for steppe eagles, imperial eagles and steppe polecats, so when souslik colonies disappear these hunters disappear too. **Who acts:** Sousliks, souslik colonies, hunters · **What happens:** be, disappear · **To what, where:** main food 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 (Sousliks, souslik colonies, hunters), 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:13 # text = Sousliks are a main food for steppe eagles, imperial eagles and steppe polecats, so when souslik colonies disappear these hunters disappear too. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sousliks souslik NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 steppe steppe NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 eagles eagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 imperial imperial NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 eagles eagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 steppe steppe NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 polecats polecat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 16 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 18 souslik souslik NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 colonies colony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 disappear disappear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 21 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 disappear disappear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 24 too too ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Sousliks | a main food | | | | for steppe eagles and imperial eagles and steppe polecats | tree rules | | 2 | **disappear** | present | souslik colonies | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **disappear** | present | this hunters | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:13`. **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, 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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