--- title: Scientists think the tiny nose may help against frostbite, but it is… — China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, ta… · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists think the tiny nose may help against frostbite, but it is still argued; its blue face comes from the way the skin scatters light. Who acts: Scientists, tiny nose, blue face, skin. 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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 (Scientists, tiny nose, blue face, skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders.lesson:9 # text = Scientists think the tiny nose may help against frostbite, but it is still argued; its blue face comes from the way the skin scatters light. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders.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 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 8 against against ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 frostbite frostbite NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 14 still still ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 scatters scatter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **help** | may | the tiny nose | | | | | against frostbite | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | nose | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **come** | present | nose's blue face | | | the way | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from way=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **scatter** | present | the skin | light | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=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. 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