--- title: In cold northern places a stoat's coat turns white in winter, keepin… — The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, t… · tree and pragmatics description: In cold northern places a stoat's coat turns white in winter, keeping only the black tail tip; this white fur is called ermine and was once used on kings' robes. Who acts: coat. 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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 (coat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.lesson:12 # text = In cold northern places a stoat's coat turns white in winter, keeping only the black tail tip; this white fur is called ermine and was once used on kings' robes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 stoat stoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 10 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 14 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 21 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 22 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 26 ermine ermine NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 xcomp _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 29 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 30 advmod _ _ 30 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 ' 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | a stoat's coat | | | cold northern places | winter | white *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in place=Trajectory | | 2 | **keep** | gerund | a stoat's coat *not said here* | the black tail tip | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Theme | | 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | this white fur | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **use** | past · passive | | | | kings's robes | | once *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | 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:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.lesson:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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