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title: Little sousliks do the same, and eagles and polecats hunt them. — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta… · tree and pragmatics
description: Little sousliks do the same, and eagles and polecats hunt them. Who acts: Little sousliks, eagles. 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 pragmatics of every claus
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# Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 3

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Little sousliks do the same, and eagles and polecats hunt them.

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**Who acts:** Little sousliks, eagles · **What happens:** do, hunt · **To what, where:** same, sousliks

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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 (Little sousliks, eagles), 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:3
# text = Little sousliks do the same, and eagles and polecats hunt them.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sousliks	souslik	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj
3	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	polecats	polecat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **do** | present | Little sousliks | the same |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | eagles and polecats | sousliks *= souslik* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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