--- title: The steppe marmot, bobak, stands on its back legs and whistles to wa… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta… · tree and pragmatics description: The steppe marmot, bobak, stands on its back legs and whistles to warn its family of eagles and foxes. Who acts: steppe marmot. 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 --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 8 The steppe marmot, bobak, stands on its back legs and whistles to warn its family of eagles and foxes. **Who acts:** steppe marmot · **What happens:** stand, whistle, warn · **To what, where:** back legs, family 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 (steppe marmot), 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:8 # text = The steppe marmot, bobak, stands on its back legs and whistles to warn its family of eagles and foxes. # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 steppe steppe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 marmot marmot NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 bobak bobak NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 whistles whistle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 eagles eagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **stand** | present | the steppe marmot | | | marmot's back legs | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | | 2 | **whistle** | present | the steppe marmot *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | the steppe marmot *not said here* | marmot's family of eagles and foxes | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient | 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:8`. **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 ×2. **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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