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title: Moles do not hibernate; they keep digging all winter, going deeper w… — The real animals of the river bank: the water vo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Moles do not hibernate; they keep digging all winter, going deeper when the ground freezes, and they live alone except when they meet to breed in spring. Who acts: Moles, eyes, ground. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the
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# The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 13

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Moles do not hibernate; they keep digging all winter, going deeper when the ground freezes, and they live alone except when they meet to breed in spring.

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**Who acts:** Moles, eyes, ground · **What happens:** not hibernate, keep, dig, go, freeze, live

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» 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 (Moles, eyes, ground), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.lesson:13
# text = Moles do not hibernate; they keep digging all winter, going deeper when the ground freezes, and they live alone except when they meet to breed in spring.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Moles	mole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
8	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	xcomp	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
13	deeper	deep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	freezes	freeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	except	except	ADP	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	breed	breed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **hibernate** | present · do-support | Moles |  |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | present | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dig** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  | winter |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **freeze** | present | the ground |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **live** | present | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **meet** | present | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **breed** | to-infinitive | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  | spring |  | tree rules |

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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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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